This chapter explores the concept of good character as not about maximizing virtues but about moderating them, discussing the balance needed in various character traits like sensitivity, confidence, and drive. It emphasizes the importance of moderation in all things to avoid weaknesses from excesses, drawing insights from Aristotle's golden mean. The conversation also touches on managing emotions, self-discipline, handling biases, and the challenges of adopting package deal ethics in belief systems.
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...