How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes

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This video is a comprehensive guide to thinking like Sherlock Holmes. I discuss the science of deduction, increasing your situational awareness and observational skills, creative reasoning, cognitive biases, memory master techniques (including the 'mind palace' or 'memory palace'), synesthesia and how it might relate to memory and more - all in the context of thinking more like the world's greatest detective!

Sherlock is actually the most portrayed character in fiction and he has been shown pulling off all kinds of crazy feats. So of course it's not possible to do everything that he does on TV or in the movies. However, we can certainly improve a great many skills that might give us almost superhuman reasoning, observation and skill. To become more like Sherlock Holmes, we should focus on the following areas:

* Observation/situational awareness/attention
* Creative reasoning/problem solving
* Memory
* Knowledge/learning

The video tackles each of these points and hopefully you'll find something interesting or useful in here. It's pretty comprehensive! See below for further reading/references:

Art of Manliness Situational Awareness: artofmanliness.com/2015/02/05/how-to-develop-th…
Video on splatter vision: youtube.com/watch?v=rMAuGG9BPFI&t=21s
Video on Functional Fixedness/Creativity: youtube.com/watch?v=W2aZ3aohBiw&t=1s
Post on splatter vision: thebioneer.com/achieve-flow-states-heightened-a…
Video on Working Memory:
Post on Working Memory: thebioneer.com/new-way-think-working-memory-e/
Video on Accelerated Learning: youtube.com/watch?v=rEdqh8y6-X8
Post on Accelerated Learning: thebioneer.com/1256-2/
Post on learning synaesthesia: thebioneer.com/become-synaesthetic/
Study on synesthesia: nature.com/articles/srep07089
Useful Books: Tricks of the Mind by Derren Brown
Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes by Maria Konnikova
Thinking in Numbers by Daniel Tammet