Avoiding pitfalls is more crucial than expediting success in endeavors like business and content creation. Failure often results from unforced errors rather than insufficient success, which usually stems from a series of failures. By understanding and avoiding the pitfalls that lead to failure, one paves the way for success. Instead of focusing on being right, strive to be less wrong by identifying and avoiding mistakes, as consistency and error avoidance are key to achieving success.
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...