How to Speak With More Confidence

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Sally Kohn: Very slight changes in wording can have almost no difference in how people react to a statement. She says the human brain has a much more impressionistic sense of what you're saying. "People just, they're not tracking that closely the specifics of exactly what you're claiming with your words"

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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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