I'm thinking about doing a LessWrong meetup around the Scout mindset. I prefer to have meetups where there are a lot of two-person exercises as those are really good to get nerds who have trouble with normal small talk to connect to each other in addition to often also being useful for developing skills over lecturing the whole time. Can anyone think of good exercises that could be done at a Scout mindset meetup?
I'd focus on noticing the Soldier mindset ("arguments as soldiers"). Find a personal "cherished belief" that would be really hard to let go of, and have your partner poke at it. Not a token belief, but a real one. Then notice your emotional state and the inner need to fight for it. That's the mental state one wants to remember, "but I am right and this is true!" and notice when it happens in other situations.