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Scout Mindset and Rethinking Certainty
A reflection on scout mindset, certainty, tribalism, belief formation, and why changing your mind is part of serious reasoning.
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By Devin Teichrow. Published May 5, 2025.
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A reflection on scout mindset, certainty, tribalism, belief formation, and why changing your mind is part of serious reasoning.
There’s a moment early in Julia Galef’s 2021 book The Scout Mindset where she defines the core difference between two broad ways of approaching the world.
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