14 Mental Models To Understand Human Nature - Gurwinder Bhogal - #486

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06/13/22

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Gurwinder Bhogal is a programmer and a writer.

Gurwinder is one of my favourite Twitter follows. He’s written another monstrous thread exploring human nature, cognitive biases, mental models, status games, crowd behaviour and social media. It's one of the best things I've read this year, so I just had to bring him on.

Expect to learn why stupidity is more dangerous than evil, why most content has to appeal to midwits, why political debates are essentially mass-scaled ventriloquizism, how lower stakes lead to more vicious arguments, why the word retard is a strange choice as an unspeakable slur, why being a mess is more likeable than being perfect and much more...

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Timestamps:

(00:00) Intro (00:38) How Companies in the West Virtue-Signal (07:35) Bonhoeffer’s Theory of Stupidity (12:19) Mean World Syndrome (20:40) Two-Step Flow Theory (26:38) Introspection Illusion (33:58) Sayre’s Law (41:28) Nut-Picking (54:43) The Lesser Mind’s Problem (1:01:03) Discussing the Word ‘Retard’ (1:09:38) The Iron Law of Oligarchy (1:12:50) Noble Cause Corruption (1:18:58) Fire-Hosing (1:23:02) The Beautiful Mess Effect (1:32:20) Where to Find Gurwinder

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June 11, 2022

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There’s a tyranny of positivity in the modern world. Talking about emotions like longing and sorrow are not usually encouraged. And yet tons of people feel like this and hearing others tell us about their melancholy brings us closer to them, so how can we integrate bittersweet emotions into our lives and what can they teach us about ourselves?

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June 16, 2022

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Corey Wilks is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist and Executive Coach.

Fears hold us back. They encourage us to shy away from challenges, they cause us to fall short of our potential and make life miserable while they’re at it. Corey has created a framework of identifying and overcoming our internal fears from a decade of clinical and coaching experience with some of the world’s highest performers.

Expect to learn why 76% of people talk about not facing their fears as a deathbed regret, the four categories of fears Corey has most commonly found with his clients, how self-sabotaging behaviour is driven by internal worries, how procrastination, perfectionism and complacency are all part of the same equation and much more...

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