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Julia Galuff hosts rationally speaking, which she has done since its inception in 2010. She has just published her first book, The Scout Mindset,. Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don't. Soldier Mindset is my term for a phenomenon where you defend your beliefs against any evidence or argument that might threaten those beliefs.

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.