The Scout Mindset
| Author | Julia Galef |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Subject | Cognitive psychology, critical thinking, decision making |
| Publisher | Portfolio (US) Piatkus (UK) |
Publication date | April 13, 2021 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Pages | 288 |
| ISBN | 9780735217553 |
| OCLC | 1164823768 |
| 153.4 | |
| LC Class | BF311.G266 2021 |
The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don't is a 2021 non-fiction book by Julia Galef.
In the book, Galef argues for what she calls a scout mindset: "the motivation to see things as they are, not as you wish they were". The scout mindset emphasizes curiosity, unbiased truth-seeking, and facing reality, even if that reality is unexpected. Galef contrasts this with a "soldier mindset", which she says is a natural tendency to use motivated reasoning to defend one's existing beliefs instead of being open to changing them.