#516 - Gurwinder Bhogal - 16 Surprising Psychology Truths

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Gurwinder Bhogal is a programmer and a writer.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Gurwinder is one of my favourite Twitter follows. He’s written yet another megathread 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.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Expect to learn how bad things can sometimes feel better than good things, why people die on the hill of opinions they've only just begun believing, why intelligence plus ideology is a nightmare, how comedy can be a troll's last line of defence, the biggest lesson I learned from Joe Rogan, why regret minimisation should be a priority, why authoritarians lose sight of rationality and much more...</span></p> <p><strong style= "font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;"> Sponsors:</strong></p> <p class="p1">Get over 37% discount on all products site-wide from MyProtein at <a href="https://bit.ly/proteinwisdom"><span class= "s1">https://bit.ly/proteinwisdom</span></a> (use code: MODERNWISDOM)</p> <p class="p1">Get 20% discount & free shipping on your Lawnmower 4.0 at <a href="https://www.manscaped.com/"><span class= "s1">https://www.manscaped.com/</span></a> (use code MODERNWISDOM)</p> <p class="p1">Get the Whoop 4.0 for free and get your first month for free at <a href= "http://join.whoop.com/modernwisdom"><span class= "s1">http://join.whoop.com/modernwisdom</span></a> (discount automatically applied)</p> <p class="p1"><strong style= "font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;"> Extra Stuff:</strong></p> <p>Check out Gurwinder's Substack - <a href= "https://gurwinder.substack.com/">https://gurwinder.substack.com/</a></p> <p>Follow Gurwinder on Twitter - <a href= "https://twitter.com/G_S_Bhoga