How To Think Like Sherlock Holmes - Mastermind - Maria Konnikova

Learn how to think like Sherlock Holmes from the book "Mastermind" written by Maria Kannikova. From her analysis of Holmes' behavior, we can reverse engineer how he acts and thinks to be more like him. Deductive in nature, Sherlock hardly ever falls into the terrible thinking such as cognitive biases and logical fallacies. Learn how to not commit any biases or fallacies through pure practice and mindfulness. Metacongnition can help you understand your thinking faults and how to correct them. The three basic steps to thinking and acting like Sherlock are, to avoid fallacies and biases, to practice mindfulness, and to never stop learning. If you can accomplish these for the majority of your life, you will undoubtedly become extremely successful. Learning how to deduce, and deducing successfully can be very exhilarating and quite addicting. Learning to be mindful in your thoughts and applying mindfulness in your life can be super beneficial to your overall health and well being.

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Benedict was born to act like Sherlock~

[QuackersMcCrackers]

Actually, Sherlock doesn't use deduction, he used induction.

See deduction is reasoning from an infallible premise. The best examples here are numeric based. So if A>B>C, then A>C, no questioned asked.

However, in observing the world around you, and drawing conclusions, it's inductive based reasoning. And yes it's true, if you say, have a dog hair on your say, trousers, it doesn't mean have a dog. However, what Sherlock did do, is he would look for clusters that point to a probable conclusion, instead of just from a single piece of evidence.

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Is it really so bad to think like Watson?

[LEGASItv]

In this book, Maria unpacked the mental strategies that lead to clearer thinking and deeper insights. She draws on 21st-century neuroscience and psychology to “illuminate Holmes’ most fascinating cases.” She writes at length on the scientific method of the mind, the brain attic, the art of observation, imagination, deduction and the importance of self-knowledge.

For me, this book is not easy to read (I didn’t read this book thru like most of my other books. I paused for about 3 months) but since my fascinated for Sherlock Holmes, fictional character created by Author Conan Doyle, is greater than the task of finishing this book, I finally did it. I read 'The Power of Habit' by Charles Duhigg and some parts of Daniel Kahneman’s 'Thinking, Fast and Slow' before and I found these books are almost similar to ‘Mastermind’ (or ‘Mastermind’ is actually similar with these other books). Some readers fairly commented that this book would be much better if she used a real character instead of a fictional character. I agree and disagree. I refuse to comment further. I suggest you watch Konnikova’s talks first on YouTube :)

[solarwind]

According to this, I already think like Sherlock... The "Holmes way" of thinking like explained in the video is EXACTLY the way how I think. This explains soo much!

[AxiosFiras]

Hate to break this to you but Sherlock's thinking isn't *SPOILER ALERT* deductive at all it's INDUCTIVE. Google the difference ;)

[Skycube]

Love this ^_^ great content! there are times when I don't work on anything and not study anything and it feels boring, it feels like you're dead already, unlike learning something everyday even if the stuffs that you have learned isn't that much.

[djr]

I think breathing exercises are really useful to quickly and easily calm and steady your thinking and increase mindfulness. I find that whenever I use them they can make a difference straight away. Just breathe in and out slowly and deeply and concentrate on it. You will feel the chatter in your mind diminish more and more the greater your concentration is. It is great for moments of anxiety

[alanmak]

I had a good chuckle when you described the Watson Brain, perfectly describes most people I see...

[joedelaware]

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[LittlePaganini]

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[porsche-dd]

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[studiomomentum]

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[funnyjoshua]

This video was perfect to show my friend the mindset to improve at league of legends!

[yataitian]

Bendydick Cuddlesnatch is the best Sherlock :D

[farinrahmanifrah]

I like how this video ended with a good message and not just "how to think like sherlock" kinda message

.cool video, thanks for sharing!

[winstonchurchill]

In my honest opinion Benedict Cumberbatch is one of the best Sherlocks (keeping any of the other 70+ in mind) he really brings out the extravagance and arrogance of the character.
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[izarscharf]

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