Reddit reviews Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes

True, it is not a practical guide.

It is more like a report covering a study/book by Nicholas Epley and Tal Yal.

Maybe, the most insightful "tips" are:

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>The crux of this technique is that people think about themselves in very different ways than they think about other people. They tend to scrutinise themselves at an incredibly close level of detail, much more closely than they examine the actions or appearance of others.
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>That's in part because you have a huge amount of information about yourself -- far more information than you have about other people. You know what your hair looked like yesterday, a month ago, and four years ago. You know whether you've put on weight recently, or if you look tired today. Compare how you evaluate yourself to how you evaluate a stranger: You might make judgments about their overall level of attractiveness, their outfit, their mannerisms, but not much else.
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>"We're experts about ourselves, and others aren't. That makes it hard for us to understand what we look like in the eyes of others," Epley says.
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>The main lesson, says Epley, is that we shouldn't be so anxious about social circumstances. Other people don't judge us with anywhere near the same level of scrutiny with which we judge ourselves. "When thinking about what other people are thinking of you, don't sweat the small stuff, because other people aren't," he says.
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>The study also has useful implications if you're trying to figure out what another person is thinking about herself or himself. To do so, you need to zoom in on their life as closely as possible.
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>That might sound a little confusing, but the lesson is that if you're trying to predict what other people think about themselves, you need to zoom in on the details. If there are any small changes in their job, their life situation or their stress levels, that's probably what they're focused on, says Epley.
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>This is kind of worrying, because so much of our public policy is based on the idea that people can imagine what it's like to walk in someone else's shoes. And that myth is so widespread that people are very confident about their ability to do so. "The problem we find over and over again in our data on these social cognition studies, the problem isn't incompetence, it's not that people are idiots, it's that they're overconfident. The problem is hubris," Epley says.
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>"It creates the assumption, the illusion that we understand each other much better than we do, and that's the big problem."

Well for one, Holmes doesn't make assumptions, he comes to probable conclusions based off of available evidence.

Which, incidentally, is something anybody can do. It's the basis for the scientific method as well as most criminal investigations. To apply the same logic to your day to day life is certainly possible.

There's actually a whole book dedicated to the subject, called Mastermind. It goes into detail about Sherlock's methodology and how to apply his overall lifestyle to your own life. It's a good read.

That said, you probably can't determine the exact details of a person's life just from one glance. This is for a variety of reasons, some of which include the fact that human senses just aren't good enough to detect some of the details Sherlock can. (You'd be hard pressed to determine if the hair on my coat is from a dog or a cat, for instance, even when looking at it up close.) And also because the vast majority of humans are not also walking encyclopedias.

You could, however, become more observant than the average person. We humans love to forget things or ignore them entirely, which is why you probably don't remember what color your shirt was last Tuesday or whether you parked your car closer to the front of the lot or the back.

Just practicing being aware of your own surroundings and taking note of details, (like colors) would be a good place to start.

As for remembering, well, that's something people have been able to take pretty far. For one, there's such a thing as a photographic memory which is about as close as a person can naturally get to remembering everything without practice.

There are also hundreds of Mnemonic techniques you can use to remember things easier. The alphabet song or Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge for sheet music would be a few basic examples. The Mind Palace that Sherlock uses is another kind of Mnemonic.

You can find loads of books on the subject of remembering as well. They'll go into all sorts of detail on different mnemonics and how to do all manner of parlour tricks like memorizing the sequence of a deck of cards after only a few moments and other things.

It's neat stuff, if not a little impractical for your day to day life.

So all in all, you probably can't be exactly like Sherlock, in the same way that real police detectives aren't exactly like fictional ones, but, with some time, practice, and dedication, you could certainly learn to think like him.

Read the book Mastermind by Maria Konnikova. That's a good place to start. It won't turn you into Sherlock Holmes but it'll get the wheels turning.

It may seem unrelated, but this book may give you some insight. It explains how Sherlock Holmes levels of awareness are not as hard to achieve as most think. My thought in recommending it is that you do not need to think so quick on your feet if you can more effectively anticipate what will happen.

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