How to Be Right More Often

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If you really want to feel good about yourself for being right, be right. Exactly. And I think you have some cool ideas around how we can be right more often. Do you want to talk about some of those? Like, for example, using betting? Yeah. So betting is a really interesting strategy that I talk about in the book for shifting your thinking in the moment away from soldier minds that towards scout minds that. This one I borrowed from an evolutionary psychologist who wrote a great book called Why Everyone Else Is A Hypocrit.

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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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