Julia galuff is the host of the popular rationally speaking podcast, where she's interviewed thinkers such as tyler cohen and phil tetlock. Her 20 16 ted tolk, why you think you're right even if you're wrong, is viewed over four million times. We go through a what she means by this metaphor of a scout mind set or a soldier mind set. And then we end with my challenging her to explain to president byden how he would structure a room full of arabs and disraelis in a conference to solve the midales conflict.
When it comes to what we believe, humans see what they want to see. We have what Julia Galef calls a “soldier” mindset: a drive to defend the ideas we most want to believe — and shoot down those we don’t. But if we want to get things right more often, argues Galef, we should train ourselves to have a “scout” mindset. Unlike the soldier, a scout’s goal isn’t to defend one side over the other. It’s to go out, survey the territory, and come back with as accurate a map as possible. Regardless of what they hope to be the case, above all, the scout wants to know what’s actually true. In The Scout Mindset, Galef explores why our brains deceive us and what we can do to change the way we think.