The Silver Lining of the Curse of Monkey Island

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There was this PC game that I used to play when my brother and I were kids called The Curse of Monkey Island. And one of the silly aspects of it was that you would fight pirates, but you didn't really fight them,. But the fights were focused around insults. So if you threw an insult at the pirate and he responded, then now you got to keep that response in your kind of toolkit of insults and responses.

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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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