Scouting

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There's still a lot less scout-like than they could be because of a number of factors. Part of the goal of my book is to make this mindset more salient and point out all of the ways in which it helps you. And so I think just having a lot of salient examples can help people act more like scouts, even if they already kind of in theory accepted this is a good thing to do.

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.