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“Of course, all maps are imperfect simplifications of reality, as a scout well knows. Striving for an accurate map means being aware of the limits of your understanding, keeping track of the regions of your map that are especially sketchy or possibly wrong. And it means always being open to changing your mind in response to new information. In scout mindset, there’s no such thing as a “threat” to your beliefs.”
― The Scout Mindset: The Perils of Defensive Thinking and How to Be Right More Often
― The Scout Mindset: The Perils of Defensive Thinking and How to Be Right More Often
“Discovering you were wrong is an update, not a failure, and your worldview is a living document meant to be revised.”
― The Scout Mindset: The Perils of Defensive Thinking and How to Be Right More Often
― The Scout Mindset: The Perils of Defensive Thinking and How to Be Right More Often
“As the late physicist Richard Feynman once said, “The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool.”
― The Scout Mindset: The Perils of Defensive Thinking and How to Be Right More Often
― The Scout Mindset: The Perils of Defensive Thinking and How to Be Right More Often
“Social costs like looking weird or making a fool out of ourselves, feel a lot more significant than they actually are. In reality, other people aren’t thinking of you nearly as much as you intuitively think they are, and their opinions of you don’t have nearly as much impact on your life as it feels like they do.”
― The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don't
― The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don't
“None of these approaches have shown much promise in changing people’s thinking in the long run or outside of the classroom. And that should not surprise us. We use motivated reasoning not because we don’t know any better, but because we’re trying to protect things that are vitally important to us—our ability to feel good about our lives and ourselves, our motivation to try hard things and stick with them, our ability to look good and persuade, and our acceptance in our communities.”
― The Scout Mindset: The Perils of Defensive Thinking and How to Be Right More Often
― The Scout Mindset: The Perils of Defensive Thinking and How to Be Right More Often
Miguel’s 2025 Year in Books
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