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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don’t (edizione 2021)di Julia Galef (Autore)
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. NF One of the few books that I believe is fundamental for everyone to read. It's good to know how we function psychologically, but research rarely tells us how to make practical use of it. Julia Galef's book is one of those that fills the gap. There are ways of viewing the world, from the unyielding zealot to the delusional "my reality," but rarely engaging with reality as it is. Making the best decisions and having the clearest perceptions requires a certain mindset that doesn't just come naturally to us, so it must be cultivated. The Scout Mindset gives its readers overarching tools and approaches to clearer thinking. Mixed thoughts about this book. I really liked the central idea, about some people having more of a “scout” mindset with others having more of a “soldier” mindset, and a lot of the elaborations made sense to me as well. But I wish the book had dug a little “deeper” into various psychological, social, political, historical, evolutionary, and philosophical issues. The book seemed a little “thin” and also a bit simplistic and repetitive. I hope Galef or someone else comes up with a deeper, more thoughtful treatment of these important ideas. That said, I really identify with the “scout” concept and it was nice to have that recognized as valuable. Despite being a little self-helpy, decent suggestions for seeing the world more clearly. Perhaps the best advise was to be constantly revising one's position as new data arrives. Cheerfully admit being wrong when you accept a new argument -- you're updating your position rather than rejecting it. I also liked the asides casting doubt on the positive thinking / visualization "research". nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
"When it comes to what we believe, humans see what they want to see. In other words, we have what Julia Galef calls a "soldier" mindset. From tribalism and wishful thinking, to rationalizing in our personal lives and everything in between, we are driven to defend the ideas we most want to believe--and shoot down those we don't. But if we want to get things right more often, argues Galef, we should train ourselves to have a "scout" mindset. Unlike the soldier, a scout's goal isn't to defend one side over the other. It's to go out, survey the territory, and come back with as accurate a map as possible. Regardless of what they hope to be the case, above all, the scout wants to know what's actually true. In The Scout Mindset, Galef shows that what makes scouts better at getting things right isn't that they're smarter or more knowledgeable than everyone else. It's a handful of emotional skills, habits, and ways of looking at the world--which anyone can learn. With fascinating examples ranging from how to survive being stranded in the middle of the ocean, to how Jeff Bezos avoids overconfidence, to how superforecasters outperform CIA operatives, to Reddit threads and modern partisan politics, Galef explores why our brains deceive us and what we can do to change the way we think"-- Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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