How to Cope With Negative Emotions

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When we feel the threat of some negative emotion, like insecurity or worry or fear, it's like we reach into this bucket of coping strategies. But there are so many other potential coping strategies in the bucket that if you just rummage around a little more and just put in a little more effort towards finding something at that intersection of comforting and also true, then there's tons of things in that intersection.

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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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