![]() Not THIS crap again! I couldn’t stop thinking about it over the next week, muttering witty comebacks as if the conversation were still going on. I left it at that, knowing that I would go off in “Soldier” Mindset Mode if I said anything else, and that things might get unpleasant. Neither she nor the group’s organizer, to whom she’d been speaking, said a word. Couple looked at her husband, startled, then looked back at me, with wide eyes. And what power are you speaking about, exactly?’ Mrs. I managed to stay polite and said only, ‘That’s a bit of an over-arching generalization. I felt my blood beginning to boil and my senses beginning to “tunnel”. THEY (meaning the poor Christians) didn’t know that they were giving away their power.” She sat back, satisfied that she had made her point. Couple had a simple explanation: “Well, the Jews were the only ones who could handle money back in ‘those days’, because Christians had been forbidden. Of course I immediately perked up, wondering what would be said. A couple at the long, noisy dinner table on my right (I was at the head of the table) leaned over, at some point in the night, to discuss with the group leader, how Jews had become so powerful. ![]() I was recently very excited to join a local history group, finding it full of seemingly well-read and educated folks with a good bit of travelling experience. But in order to master the art and science of change, we need to develop critical thinking skills and operate from the scout mindset more than we do from the soldier mindset.įiled Under: Attention, Habit, Living, Making Different Choices, Mindset Tagged With: Brain, Feedback, Julia Galef, Mind, Mindset But if you can’t change your mind, you won’t be able to change your status quo.īias and the soldier mindset come naturally to us. It’s easier to dig your heels in than it is to admit you’ve made a mistake or have changed your mind. You can end up paying a very high price when you aim to be right instead of to get it right. It’s easier to jump to conclusions than it is to be deliberate and thoughtful and willing to acknowledge doubt and uncertainty.ĭoubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. You don’t have to do anything to slip into it. The soldier mindset is easier to access because System 1 is often more concerned with being right than it is with getting it right. People with a scout mindset, Galef says, “are more likely to feel intrigued when they encounter something that contradicts their expectations.” You want to understand it because the better you understand it the better you’ll be at making accurate course corrections. ![]() Instead you’ll be quick to jump to a conclusion and then build a case to support it by what’s referred to as motivated reasoning.īut if you view what happens as feedback (scout mindset), you tend to be curious about it. If you’re aiming to confirm and defend your pre-existing beliefs (soldier mindset), you won’t be inclined to examine what happens with any degree of objectivity. You can interpret what happens as either confirmation or feedback. You also need to pay attention to what happens when you take steps to achieve your goals. Obviously there are times when you need to defend and protect-and maintain the status quo. But if you’re trying to change your status quo, you need to know how to distinguish relevant information from irrelevant information. In the grand scheme of things, both mindsets are valuable. You want to know what’s really there as accurately as possible. On the other hand, when you operate from the scout mindset, your actions are based not on attacking or defending but on understanding the terrain and potential obstacles. She says that when you operate from the soldier mindset, your actions stem from reflexes rooted in a need to protect yourself and your side and to defeat the enemy, whoever or whatever it may be. Julia Galef, president of the Center for Applied Rationality in Berkeley, has come up with a great metaphor to describe these two different mindsets: the soldier and the scout. And how you process information can have a considerable influence on how well you succeed at accomplishing what you set out to do. It’s an important question because the answer determines how you process information. It’s about your underlying intention or aim. You might manage to do both at the same time, but the question isn’t about your result. Do you want to be right or do you want to get it right?
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