Gurwinder Bhogal is a programmer and a writer. 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 fantastic, and today we go through some of my favourites. Expect to learn whether cynical people are actually smarter, why people tend to find uncertain outcomes so intolerable, why people would rather lie than say what they really think, whether people would rather be hated than unknown, why appearing to do good has become more important than actually doing good and much more... - 00:00 Are Cynical People Actually Smarter? 09:08 Trust in the Information Era 19:04 Why People Hate Uncertainty 32:36 The Truth About Censorship 42:18 People Would Rather Be Hated Than Unknown 50:02 Society’s Trend of Toxic Compassion 58:31 Don’t Base Decisions on Emotion 1:03:30 The Dynamic of Lazy Internet Insults 1:10:05 Being Intentional About Content Consumption 1:20:54 Convincing Ourselves of Our Own Beliefs 1:25:46 Why You Shouldn’t Neglect Reading 1:35:22 The Most Ignorant People 1:40:42 Is the News Just Entertainment? 1:51:04 What’s Next for Gurwinder - Get access to every episode 10 hours before YouTube by subscribing for free on Spotify - https://spoti.fi/2LSimPn or Apple Podcasts - https://apple.co/2MNqIgw Get my free Reading List of 100 life-changing books here - https://chriswillx.com/books/ Try my productivity energy drink Neutonic here - https://neutonic.com/modernwisdom - Get in touch in the comments below or head to... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx Email: https://chriswillx.com/contact/