You Must Be Some Kind of Therapist cover image

18. Gurwinder Bhogal: Hubris, Heuristics, and Human Error

You Must Be Some Kind of Therapist

00:00

The Importance of Understanding the Brain

I think that psychology is very fundamental to understanding pretty much everything, because it's the study of the thing that studies. And I was very wary early on that there's a lot of nonsense in the field of psychology as well. A lot of unscientific theories in psychology so I was very careful about avoiding that early on. So I took this scientific approach this sort of logic logic based approach to psychology and tried to look at the brain as a computer in a way. It is quite a cliché model but it helped me to have a more of a reason based approach, rather than this one which is sort of, you know, about just having these wild theories,. You know?

Transcript
Play full episode

The AI-powered Podcast Player

Save insights by tapping your headphones, chat with episodes, discover the best highlights - and more!
App store bannerPlay store banner
 Get the app