What Is the Difference Between Scoutness and Soldierness?

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Bob Greene: Why do I strive to be more of a scout, less of a soldier? He says most decisions that we have this soldier problem with are ideological. And it's really hard to know what the right, what a scout should think about religion or politics and so on. Greene: Since you can't really find the truth in a lot of those areas, it's not clear how to be a good scout.

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.