121 | Julia Galef: The Path to Thinking Better with the Scout Mindset

The Realignment

Technology, News Commentary, National Security, Marshall Kosloff, International Relations, News, Public Policy, Economics, Politics, Saager Enjeti, U.s. Politics, Policy

4.8 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2021

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Buy a book using our bookshop link: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Julia Galef, author of The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don’t and host of the Rationally Speaking podcast, joins The Realignment to make the case for embracing the “scout” mindset in order to make better decisions and avoid tribalism and wishful thinking, as opposed to the knee-jerk bias of the “soldier” mindset.

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0:00.0	Marsha and Saga here welcome back to the realignment.
0:03.2	I know that a lot of people really want to do the virtuous thing and escape their filter
0:14.0	bubble or escape their echo chamber.
0:16.0	And so they, you know, liberals will turn on Fox News for a week or conservatives will
0:20.2	listen to NPR.
0:22.0	And I applaud their intentions there.
0:25.8	It's very noble.
0:27.0	But in practice it just tends to backfire and, you know, the liberal comes away from Fox
0:31.0	News saying, you know, well, I did learn something.
0:33.4	I learned that the other side is even worse than I thought.
0:35.7	Crazy.
0:36.7	Yeah.
0:37.7	Exactly.
0:38.7	There's been more unreasonable than I thought.
0:40.7	Yeah.
0:41.7	Today's episode was a very exciting one for Saga and I.
0:54.5	It's with Julia Galef.
0:56.2	She is the author of a new book.
0:58.3	It's called The Scout Mindset.
1:00.0	Why some people see things clearly and others don't.
1:03.4	This episode is great because Julia is a really strong thinker.
1:09.0	She hosts the rationally speaking podcast.
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