#602 - Gurwinder Bhogal - 14 Shocking Lessons About Human Nature

<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 fantastic, and today we go through some of my favourites.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Expect to learn why asking questions is the most selfish thing you can do, why people create hatred in an attempt to feel love, the real danger of censorship, why it's more important to avoid being wrong than try to be right, what postjournalism is and why you need to understand it, how to win every debate even if you lose, why you should never take an internet insult personally 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 a Free Sample Pack of all LMNT Flavours with your first box at <a href= "https://www.drinklmnt.com/modernwisdom"><span class= "s1">https://www.drinklmnt.com/modernwisdom</span></a> (automatically applied at checkout)</p> <p class="p1"><span class="s1">Download Hevy, the best workout tracker for free at <a href= "https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hevy-workout-tracker-gym-log/id1458862350"> https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hevy-workout-tracker-gym-log/id1458862350</a></span></p> <p class="p1">Get 20% discount on House Of Macadamias’ nuts at <a href="https://houseofmacadamias.com/modernwisdom"><span class= "s1">https://houseofmacadamias.com/modernwisdom</span></a> (use code MW20)</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 Gu