How to Talk to a Person in Scout Mindset

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I think there really are a lot of times where people sort of just expect you to be in soldier mindset. And so I've found that those kinds of signals of good faith can help not all the time but can often take someone who started out being in soldier mindset, take them at least part of the way towards scout mindset and make the disagreement go better. Yeah. That makes a ton of sense. And you can still get a lot of value of their conversation. But I also think it's a useful frame to say, hey, am I in scout mindset is the other person? And if they're not, do I want them to be? And then if I do want them to

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What are "scout" and "soldier" mindsets? How can we have productive disagreements even when one person isn't in scout mindset? Is knowing about good rationality habits sufficient to reason well? When do we naturally tend to be in scout mindset or soldier mindset? When is each mindset beneficial or harmful? Are humans "rationally irrational"? What are the two different types of confidence? What are some practical strategies for shifting our mindset in the moment from soldier to scout?

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