Julia galef book12/9/2023 ![]() Is it education, fashion, genes? The Scout mindset is fine for reading physical landscape that of the human mind is more intractable. The interesting question here isn’t so much that we’ve got a stubborn anti-rational aspect to our thinking it’s to ask what makes us think the way we do, which she does only superficially. And you notice that when it comes to perceiving rational thinking, she does tend to award her side – atheist/liberal/Democrat – most breaks. Soldier model is binary… as our author observes, we’re often a bit of both. Like all self-help books, this one is an exercise in over-simplification. “You were wrong, get wrecked” isn’t quite the Scout mindset. The question remains… how does that apply to Dominic Cummings’ bid to undermine Boris Johnson by demonstrating he got things wrong and then changed his approach to Covid? You see, the Scout mindset is all about being open to the possibility you are wrong and not seeing the pursuit of truth as a win-lose scenario.
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