![]() ![]() The idea here is that there’s a strong sense people have that, in order to be a team player, they have to agree with each other. At the very least, having a moment to even form your opinion before anchoring on other people’s is very helpful. You could take it even further and have people write down their answers and then put them all in the center before anyone gets to talk. They can form an opinion, independently of hearing what the group consensus is. You can avoid that by having everyone think about their answer before anyone speaks. In group disagreements, one thing that I find helpful is to avoid the failure mode that people often get into where one person comes out with a proposal, and everyone anchors on it. Technique #1: Before anyone speaks, everyone should take a moment to think about their answer. Q: What are concrete ways we can practice the Scout Mindset as teams and use it to make better decisions? ![]() Anytime those emotional or social incentives toward a particular conclusion are present, you’re going to see the Soldier Mindset surface a lot more-even if, in the long run, you would be better off in Scout Mindset where you are seeing things accurately and fixing whatever problems are there. It tends to emerge when there’s some alternate incentive-like an emotional or social incentive-to get a particular answer, regardless of the evidence. Soldier Mindset comes much more naturally in times when there’s no immediate benefit. For example, what is wrong with my car and how do I fix it? Galef: The Scout Mindset comes most naturally to us in situations where we see some direct, tangible benefit to figuring out the truth about the question. ![]() Q: What pushes us to be in either the Scout or Soldier Mindset? So, Scout Mindset is basically trying to be objective and intellectually honest and just curious about what’s true. You are always open to revising your map as you learn more and look at the landscape from different perspectives. Your goal, like a scout, is to go out and see what’s actually there-as clearly and objectively as possible-and to form as accurate a map of a situation or an issue as you can, including any areas of uncertainty. In Scout Mindset, your goal is not to attack or defend any particular position. Soldier Mindset is a motivation to defend a preexisting belief or to defend something that you want to believe against any evidence that might threaten to undermine it. Galef: These are metaphors for two very different motivations that can shape our thinking. Q: What are the Scout and Soldier Mindsets? See below for interview highlights, as well as the full recording of my conversation with Julia. And not just any mindset, but one that approaches the environment with curiosity rather than defensiveness.Īuthor Julia Galef calls it “the scout mindset,” and she joined SPN’s Divergent Thinking Show to discuss insights from her book, The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don’t, and how they can empower state-based organizations to make better team decisions, craft more effective strategies, and achieve greater impact. 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.By Todd Davidson, State Policy Network’s Senior Director of Strategic Developmentįor individual leaders and teams alike, success involves a critical element: mindset. It's a handful of emotional skills, habits, and ways of looking at the world-which anyone can learn. 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. Regardless of what they hope to be the case, above all, the scout wants to know what's actually true. It's to go out, survey the territory, and come back with as accurate a map as possible. Unlike the soldier, a scout's goal isn't to defend one side over the other. 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.īut if we want to get things right more often, argues Galef, we should train ourselves to have a "scout" mindset. In other words, we have what Julia Galef calls a "soldier" mindset. When it comes to what we believe, humans see what they want to see. ".an engaging and enlightening account from which we all can benefit."- The Wall Street JournalĪ better way to combat knee-jerk biases and make smarter decisions, from Julia Galef, the acclaimed expert on rational decision-making. ![]()
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