Julia Galef on the Scout Mindset

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🗓️ 17 May 2021

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Podcaster and author Julia Galef talks about her book The Scout Mindset with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Galef urges us to be more rational--to be open-minded about what we might discover about the world--rather than simply defend what we already believe, which she calls the soldier mindset. The conversation is a wide-ranging discussion of our biases and the challenges of viewing the world objectively.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, Conversations for the Curious, part of the Library of Economics
0:07.0	and Liberty.
0:08.0	I'm your host, Russ Roberts of Shalem College in Jerusalem and Stanford University's Hoover
0:13.0	Institution.
0:14.0	Go to econtalk.org where you could subscribe, comment on this episode and find links and
0:18.5	other information related to today's conversation.
0:21.5	You'll also find our archives, with every episode we've done going back to 2006.
0:26.8	Our email address is mail at econtalk.org.
0:30.2	We'd love to hear from you.
0:37.2	Today is April 5, 2021 and my guest is author and podcaster Julia Gailiff.
0:42.7	She hosts rationally speaking, which she has done since its inception in 2010.
0:47.4	And she has just published her first book, which is the subject of today's episode, The
0:50.7	Scout Mindset.
0:52.4	Why some people see things clearly and others don't, Julia, welcome to econ talk.
0:57.6	Thank you.
0:58.6	It's so nice to be on your show after listening it to it for so many years.
1:02.2	That's awesome.
1:03.5	You contrast the Scout Mindset with the soldier mindset.
1:08.2	What are they and why is it better to think like a scout than a soldier?
1:12.8	That's the whole book.
1:13.8	I'll also try to be as concise as I can.
1:16.9	So soldier mindset is my term for a phenomenon.
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