The Scout Mindset
2021 nonfiction book by Julia Galef / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don't is a 2021 non-fiction book by Julia Galef.
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Author | Julia Galef |
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Country | United States |
Language | English |
Subject | Cognitive psychology, critical thinking, decision making |
Publisher | Portfolio (US)[1] Piatkus (UK)[2] |
Publication date | April 13, 2021[1] |
Pages | 288[1] |
ISBN | 9780735217553 |
OCLC | 1164823768 |
153.4 | |
LC Class | BF311.G266 2021 |
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In the book, Galef argues for what she calls a scout mindset: "the motivation to see things as they are, not as you wish they were".[3] The scout mindset emphasizes curiosity, unbiased truth-seeking,[4] and facing reality, even if that reality is unexpected.[5][6] Galef contrasts this with a "soldier mindset", which she says is a natural tendency to use motivated reasoning to defend one's existing beliefs instead of being open to changing them.[7]