I Don't Need to Be a Minor American Poet

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My dad struggled to write great poetry. He was not a minor American poet in the official sense that he's you know, he's not in Wikipedia under poets Have you published any of them? No, and he didn't either. I put some I'm gonna put some of them up on medium that I love but The point is that I think this idea I think it's good to know your limitations and enjoy what you have like my dad did.

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.