Julia Galef: ...some people see things clearly and others don't

Nobody Told Me!

Business, Entrepreneurship

4.2 • 671 Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Your mindset is the topic on this episode. Do you wish you had emotional skills, habits and ways of looking at the world that served you better? Our guest, Julia Galef, says you can learn new ways of looking at the world and you should! Julia is the co-founder of the Center for Applied Rationality, the host of the podcast, "Rationally Speaking", and the author of the book, "The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don’t". Her website is https://juliagalef.com/

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0:00.0	Welcome to Nobody Told Me.
0:13.5	I'm Laura Owens.
0:14.5	And I'm Jan Black.
0:15.8	Have you ever paid much attention to your mindset?
0:18.7	Do you wish that you had emotional skills, habits, and ways of
0:22.4	looking at the world that served you better? Our guest on this episode, Julia Galeff, says you can
0:27.5	learn new ways of looking at the world and you should. Julia is the co-founder of the Center for Applied
0:33.4	Rationality, the host of the podcast, Rationally speaking, and the author of the new book, The Scout
0:39.3	Mindset, Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don't. Julia, thank you so much for joining us.
0:46.1	Thank you. It's so great to be on the show. What a great intro. You deserve it. Tell us what the
0:50.7	scout mindset is. Yeah, so the Scout mindset is my term for the motivation to see things as they are and not as you wish they were.
1:01.1	So it's part of this larger metaphor of the book in which we humans are often by default in what I call soldier mindset, in which our motivation is to defend our pre-existing
1:12.4	beliefs or defend the things that we want to believe against any evidence or argument that
1:17.0	might threaten them. And so scout mindset is an alternative to that. And whereas a soldier is
1:23.2	their role is to attack and to defend, the scout's role is just to go out and and see what's
1:28.3	really out there and form as accurate a map of reality as possible. So, why do you still-
1:34.8	About Scout mindset and, you know, how to shift from Soldier towards Scout and why we should do
1:39.8	that. Why is it that so many of us have this defensive mindset, even when we're presented with
1:46.7	true information that goes against those thoughts? And I'm sure all of us can think of
1:51.8	situations where we've been in a fight and we've gone so far. We believe our side. We're
1:58.4	presented with different information and yet we still don't want to
2:01.5	give up the fight, even though we know we're wrong. Yeah, I've been there many times myself and I
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