14 Uncomfortable Truths About Human Psychology - Gurwinder Bhogal

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 why our mental model of the world assumes people are just like us, why Narcissists tend to inject themselves into every story no matter how unrelated or tenuous, the role of Postjournalism in a world of fake news, why we navigate the world through stories and not statistics or facts, why people specialise in things they are actually bad at and much more… - 00:00 False Consensus Effect 04:47 Freudian’s Paradox 14:35 The Narcissist’s Bedpost 20:34 Enthymeme 30:09 Post-Journalism 41:20 Fiction Lag 51:58 The Golden Mean 1:05:55 Tarswell’s Razor 1:09:32 Package-Deal Ethics 1:17:44 Rothbard’s Law 1:24:22 Champion Bias 1:30:21 Anchored to Your O