Prakhar Gupta
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To Friends in the West and to the people of Pakistan, Jai hind 🇮🇳
Prakhar Gupta2,615,339 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr
Patrick Bet-David (Patrick Bet-David) speaks to India on PGX - The Prakhar Gupta Xperience Hindi dub in the next tweet. Timestamps ↓ 00:00 – Introduction 01:05 – How Patrick built his confidence 05:07 – 3 simple ways to build confidence 08:11 – How to find good friends and mentors 13:01 – How to do hard things 24:21 – Patrick Bet-David on India 30:16 – What marriage actually means 33:18 – Why family matters 38:29 – How to use humor 42:36 – The Power of Storytelling 48:28 – Stay curious about everyone 50:17 – The Four keys to success 57:26 – Humanity's Relationship with AI
Prakhar Gupta138,498 Aufrufe • vor 6 Monaten
Played a quick game with Daniel Negreanu (Daniel Negreanu) before the podcast. Wild how fast someone at his level can read you. We spoke about how people behave when the stakes rise, what pressure does to decision-making, how influence works at a table, and physical cues. Also got into failure, long losing stretches, early life, Vegas, reading people, chess vs poker and poker math. Very few people think this cleanly about competition and human behaviour. Timestamps below. 00:00 - Daniel's Feedback on my Game 02:56 - How to Read Body Language 05:23 - What Makes Daniel Great 11:55 - How to Influence Someone 15:17 - Dealing with Failures 18:47 - Lessons from the Game 22:44 - Poker vs Chess 26:42 - What Creates Charisma 36:02 - Thinking Under Pressure 40:52 - Daniel’s Early Life 46:36 - What Losing Teaches 50:26 - How Has Poker Changed 59:21 - High Stakes = Better Game 01:01:35 - Reading People & Poker Math 01:05:01 - Dealing with Jealousy 01:12:10 - What He Learned from His Woman 01:15:47 - Private Games in Vegas 01:22:23 - Questions for me
Prakhar Gupta114,188 Aufrufe • vor 6 Monaten
Did a PGX Ideas episode with Gad Saad. In case you guys aren’t familiar with the format — I take one central question and chase it with the guest. With Gad, I asked: Why do we want what we want? That led us to questions like: - Why humans are wired to consume - Why we over-consume and compare - Why men chase power - How marketing exploits evolutionary instincts - Why people buy ideologies, not just products - And how technology will change human desire itself The Hindi-dubbed AI version is also attached in this thread. Timestamps: 00:00 — Why are humans wired to consume? 05:27 — Why do people avoid emotional principles? 08:36 — Why do we over-consume? 13:04 — Why do men chase power? 17:32 — How do humans consume? 29:40 — Are fake smiles a form of social deception? 33:11 — Why did Mamdani win? 39:40 — What do marketers understand about humans? 43:24 — Why do we buy through comparison? 45:44 — What’s broken in modern society? 48:10 — Why do intellectuals dress poorly? 56:14 — How marketing psychology actually works 1:05:00 — How do generations differ in consumption? 1:07:44 — The Sydney Sweeney controversy 1:10:33 — Does morality shape evolution? 1:15:35 — How will technology change consumption? 1:22:46 — Questions for me
Prakhar Gupta30,552 Aufrufe • vor 5 Monaten
Spoke with David Buss, a pioneer in human mating psychology. He’s one of the few people who’s actually studied why men and women choose each other the way they do — across cultures & time. We got into the basics of his work, how evolutionary psychology formed as a field, and why some of Freud’s ideas make sense in a modern context. We spoke about long-term vs short-term mating, why people pick bad partners, what makes someone “high value,” and the lies men and women tell each other without even realising it. Other Topics that we covered — emotional vs sexual cheating, why some patterns repeat across societies, what dating apps have done to us, and why men and women want such different things from each other. Episode attached in both English and Hindi Dubbed Timestamps ↓ 00:00 – What He Studies 04:36 – Freud’s Big Shift 05:55 – What Is Evolutionary Psychology 09:50 – Are Female Orgasms Necessary? 14:30 – Who Pays More for Bad Partners? 16:21 – Long-Term vs Short-Term Relationships 24:22 – Male vs Female Preferences 35:23 – Media Myths About Beauty 47:18 – Why Women Like Bad Boys 56:32 – Why Women Choose Status 01:00:52 – Lies Men & Women Tell 01:06:53 – Dating Patterns in India 01:11:33 – Emotional vs Sexual Cheating 01:14:47 – Are Humans Monogamous? 01:19:35 – Why Men Prefer Younger Women 01:22:06 – How Dating Apps Changed Mating 01:30:10 – Dating an AI 01:33:40 – Male vs Female Sexual Preferences 01:35:40 – Why Women Like Funny Men 01:37:31 – David on the Red Pill 01:39:32 – Does He Believe in Love?
Prakhar Gupta27,823 Aufrufe • vor 6 Monaten
Here is one of the wildest conversations I've ever had - unsurprisingly with Balaji. It's 3 hours long. We go DEEP into his theory of the future. We talk US vs China in the upcoming years. We talk about the role of India and Indians in the evolving world. We talk AI and Blockchain and the internet. Here is the full episode. Digest at your own pace. (PART 1/2)
Prakhar Gupta28,323 Aufrufe • vor 10 Monaten
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