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When it comes to what we believe, humans see what they want to see. We have what Julia Galef calls a \\u201csoldier\\u201d mindset: a drive to defend the ideas we most want to believe \\u2014 and shoot down those we don\\u2019t. But if we want to get things right more often, argues Galef, we should train ourselves to have a \\u201cscout\\u201d mindset. Unlike the soldier, a scout\\u2019s goal isn\\u2019t to defend one side over the other. It\\u2019s 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\\u2019s actually true. In The Scout Mindset, Galef explores why our brains deceive us and what we can do to change the way we think.