{"id":1658,"date":"2024-11-13T14:24:31","date_gmt":"2024-11-13T14:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1658"},"modified":"2026-06-04T22:08:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T22:08:16","slug":"serendipitous-insight-about-scouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/serendipitous-insight-about-scouts\/","title":{"rendered":"Serendipitous Insight About Scouts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have many times lauded the power of serendipity and yesterday it struck once again.\u00a0 Having written what I did yesterday morning about <a href=\"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/making-uninformed-decisions\/\">uninformed decisions<\/a> I received a link in an email to a TED talk which was right on point about part of my thesis.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Recently I haven&#8217;t visited TED (which is one of the sources I long ago mentioned as being in my <a href=\"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/the-ignorance-trough\/\">ignorance trough<\/a>) often enough, but I do receive regular updates on available talks.\u00a0 As soon as I saw the title &#8220;Why you think you&#8217;re right &#8212; even if you&#8217;re wrong&#8221; I could tell that I needed to visit this particular talk.<\/p>\n<h5 align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/embed.ted.com\/talks\/julia_galef_why_you_think_you_re_right_even_if_you_re_wrong\/transcript?user_email_address=f9c08b139938f8333df3ee71fb808bd1&amp;lctg=62d1ad0a1c794c328cea2717&amp;subtitle=en\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Why you think you&#8217;re right &#8212; even if you&#8217;re wrong<\/a><\/h5>\n<div class=\"video-container\">\n<div class=\"video-wrapper\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/embed.ted.com\/talks\/julia_galef_why_you_think_you_re_right_even_if_you_re_wrong\/transcript?user_email_address=f9c08b139938f8333df3ee71fb808bd1&amp;lctg=62d1ad0a1c794c328cea2717&amp;subtitle=en\"\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The idea that more people should approach the world like a &#8216;<strong>scout<\/strong>&#8216; rather than the almost universal &#8216;<strong>soldier<\/strong>&#8216; viewpoint is very apt and one that melds very well with my own philosophy.\u00a0 It highlights the need to accept that you &#8220;don&#8217;t know&#8217;; that you might be &#8220;wrong&#8221;; and that you need to look for the &#8220;truth&#8221; (whatever that may look like in the circumstances) of the situation or decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have many times lauded the power of serendipity and yesterday it struck once again.\u00a0 Having written what I did yesterday morning about uninformed decisions I received a link in an email to a TED talk which was right on point about part of my thesis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[79,81,103,119],"class_list":["post-1658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ignorance","tag-cognition","tag-decision-making","tag-philosophical","tag-worldview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1658"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3296,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1658\/revisions\/3296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}