Julia galef luke1/17/2024 ![]() There is nothing wrong with being wrong and this book illustrates this with lots of practical ideas. If you don’t agree with someone, try to be curious as to why other people think things you might disagree with and why some people are more focused on their narratives rather than facts, reasons and rationale. Question your thinking, try to see new points or argue with your own opinions, be humble, instead of being certain of something give it a percentage of how current you think an opinion, belief or statement you think is correct actually is. ![]() By the end of this book I realised that I do do a lot of things similar to a scout mindset but it was still a very worthwhile read. As another recent book I read recently concluded with the quote“the problem with the world it’s not that people think wrong things but there certain of those wrong things“. This book looks at ways that we can see the world more clearly. There’s nothing wrong with being wrong and in fact your thinking and thoughts should always be open to constant reevaluation. ![]() However, the scout mindset is one who surveys the world with curiosity and open-mindedness. The soldier mindset is one that is always on the attack or being defensive, at the point of all else, certain of its viewpoint - but none of us can be right or correct all the time. The author looks at whether we have a scout mindset or a soldier mindset. The Scout mindset is one that purveys the landscape and rationalises and reasons what the truth might be, has a broader outlook and tries to see both sides of an argument or set of beliefs. However, it can be hard for these folk to always see or know the truth, stories are stronger than facts and rational reasoning and their truths can be built on flimsy, unreliable evidence. Some people are very certain of the stories they’ve told themselves and the certainties of their narratives that they will either defend or attack others who question their beliefs - this is a person with a soldier mindset. So that when he acts on his theories, he behaves very often like a lunatic.” Aldous Huxley, Texts and Pretexts, 1932 This is an interesting book that looks at how we sometimes see the world and how we can become more aware of what is so and what isn’t. Unfortunately, he is not quite intelligent enough, in most cases, to find correct explanations. “Man is so intelligent that he feels impelled to invent theories to account for what happens in the world. With fascinating examples ranging from how to survive being stranded in the middle of the ocean, to how Jeff Bezos avoids overconfidence, to how superforecasters outperform CIA operatives, to Reddit threads and modern partisan politics, Galef explores why our brains deceive us and what we can do to change the way we think. It's a handful of emotional skills, habits and ways of looking at the world-which anyone can learn. In The Scout Mindset, Galef shows that what makes scouts better at getting things right isn't that they're smarter or more knowledgeable than everyone else. Regardless of what they hope to be the case, above all, the scout wants to know what's actually true. It's to go out, survey the territory and come back with as accurate a map as possible. Unlike the soldier, a scout's goal isn't to defend one side over the other. From tribalism and wishful thinking, to rationalising in our personal lives and everything in between, we are driven to defend the ideas we most want to believe-and shoot down those we don't.īut if we want to get things right more often we should train ourselves to think more like a scout. In other words, we have what Julia Galef calls a 'soldier' mindset. When it comes to what we believe, humans see what they want to see. In this podcast, he tells a new short story every week.Winner of best smart thinking book 2022 (Business Book Awards) Mike Rowe is perhaps my favorite storyteller. A summary and discussion of each title in Young’s monthly book club. Julia Galef and guests “explore the borderlands between reason and nonsense, likely and unlikely, science and pseudoscience.” A podcast focusing on important and controversial questions about the human mind, society, and current events. Weaving together insights from the fields of genetics, archaeology, linguistics, and paleoanthropology, hosts Spencer Wells and Razib Khan take us on a grand tour of human history. Dan Carlin’s ultra-popular podcast on world history. Tyler Cowen interviews an eclectic roster of guests. History as told by the people who were there. The Harvard Effective Altruism student podcast. One-on-one discussions with an eclectic mix of authors, professors, Nobel Laureates, entrepreneurs, leaders of charities and businesses, and people on the street. The 80,000 Hours Podcast. A show about the world’s most pressing problems and how you can use your career to solve them. ![]() Here’s a list of the podcasts I currently subscribe to.
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