Aren't Some People Just Happy and Not Happy?

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I think we're all kind of soldier oriented. And I think scout mindset is something you have to work on. A recent guest on the program, Emiliano Simon Thomas talking about happiness. She said that there's studies that have shown that 50% genetic, 40% of something else and 10% of something other. It's one of them's your genetic makeup, ones like your circumstances and one is what you have control over.

Podcaster and author Julia Galef talks about her book The Scout Mindset with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Galef urges us to be more rational--to be open-minded about what we might discover about the world--rather than simply defend what we already believe, which she calls the soldier mindset. The conversation is a wide-ranging discussion of our biases and the challenges of viewing the world objectively.