This is hard to rate for me because it’s not anything new to me, so it’s more of a clarifying text. As such, it’s hard to exceed my expectations beyond what it sets out to do: Describing the solider mindset and the scout mindset. What each look like in practice, and the benefits of being a scout.

I like the real world examples, though sometimes they are overly simplistic, as with Bezos and Musk, who both supposedly gave minor odds to their succeeding in various companies and attributed taking the risk because the benefit to “the world” was worth it, regardless of failure. It doesn’t take into account something really obvious though: They can also afford to fail; the correlation of such examples to the average individual is… negligible, at best; we know they are not morally just people. Empirically, we know this. So that part bugged me.

Regardless, though, I would rather give a higher rating so that more people encountered this mindset and attempted to implement it and the reality is many consumers on this site are pretty snobby about rating scores, even though 3 stars means it’s actually still good. And I do feel comfortable assigning a higher value to something like this than fiction, since it can actively benefit you more than most self help and is directly actionable to online interactions, which I myself assign a lot of value.