The Scout Mindset Av Julia Galef

<p><b>''Original, thought-provoking and a joy to read'' Tim Harford</b><br><br><b>Winner of best smart thinking book (Business Book Awards) and a <i>Guardian </i>best books of 2021<br></b><br>When it comes to what we believe, humans see what they want to see. In other words, we have what Julia Galef calls a ''soldier'' mindset. 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.<br><br>But if we want to get things right more often we should train ourselves to think more like a scout. Unlike the soldier, a scout''s goal isn''t to defend one side over the other. It''s to go out, survey the territory, and come back with as accurate a map as possible. Regardless of what they hope to be the case, above all, the scout wants to know what''s actually true.<br><br>In <i>The Scout Mindset</i>, Galef shows that what makes scouts better at getting things ri