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Scout and Soldier Mindsets (with Julia Galef)

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

CHAPTER

The Power of Reframing the Desire to Be Right

If you really want to be right, that in a sense makes you more motivated to figure out what the true answer is. But it's also tricky in any given situation because really wanting to be right in that instance makes you less likely to notice the ways in which you're wrong and could improve your map of the world. So yeah, that was kind of the goal of this reframe was to replace the desire to beright in that particular argument and just refocus your attention on your desire to be right for the long term.

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