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The Scout Mindset 2021
The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don't is a 2021 non-fiction book written by Julia Galef.
Galef's book presents the concept of a scout mindset, defined as "the motivation to see things as they are, not as you wish they were". This approach values curiosity, objective truth-seeking, and confronting unexpected realities. The author contrasts this with what she terms a soldier mindset, describing it as an instinctive tendency to apply motivated reasoning to protect existing beliefs rather than remaining receptive to altering them.
Details
- Publisher
- Piatkus (UK), Portfolio (US)
- ISBN
- 9780735217553
- Pages
- 288
