With fascinating examples ranging from how to survive an emergency, to how Jeff Bezos avoids overconfidence, to Obama’s way of coping with risk, to Reddit threads and modern partisan politics, Galef explores why our brains deceive us and what we can do to change the way we think. In the book, Galef argues for what she calls a scout mindset: 'the motivation to see things as they are, not as you wish they were'. It’s a handful of emotional skills, habits, and ways of looking at the world-which anyone can learn. The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Dont is a 2021 non-fiction book by Julia Galef. But if we want to get things right more often, argues Galef, we should train ourselves to have a scout mindset. She hosts Rationally Speaking, the official podcast of New York City Skeptics, which she has done since its inception in 2010, sharing the show with co-host and philosopher Massimo Pigliucci until 2015. Galef’s insight is that what makes scouts better at getting things right isn’t that they’re smarter or more knowledgeable than everyone else. From tribalism and wishful thinking, to rationalizing in our personal lives and everything in between, we are driven to defend the ideas we most want to believeand shoot down those we don’t. Julia Galef is co-founder of the Center for Applied Rationality. Regardless of what they hope to be the case, above all, the scout wants to know what’s actually true. It’s to go out, survey the territory, and come back with as accurate a map as possible. A scout’s goal isn’t to defend one side over the other. WASHINGTON Hunter Biden’s lawyer filed an ethics complaint in the House of Representatives on Friday against Rep. Instead, Galef argues, if we want to get things right more often, we should train ourselves to have a “scout” mindset. 22.6M subscribers Subscribe 53K 1.9M views 6 years ago Perspective is everything, especially when it comes to examining your beliefs. We have what Julia Galef calls a “soldier” mindset: the drive to defend ideas we want to believe, and shoot down those we don’t. From tribalism in politics, to wishful thinking and rationalizing in our personal lives, humans are natural-born motivated reasoners.
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