Did you just post this comment or only change it? Could be a glitch but it says this is posted 2 years ago where most of the other comments (viewer curated) are 4-6 years ago. Either way I’d try a more directed approach. Namely one based on the above video.
Also, getting smarter is something more intellectuals seek than ignorants. I’m not surprised you chose this path of marketing as your channel name is, “Bug Think” (also a more intellectual endeavor but regardless). My point is you’re doing great if you want the class disparity of intellect to match that of Americas social economic status. However, if your goal is to spread knowledge to as many people as possible I would do a more targeted approach
Whether he's real or fiction, I think it is fair to say that we know Holmes better than we know virtually every real person--maybe including ourselves. That is not the power of Doyle, but the power of literature.
Holmes is actually based on Doyle's professor which was very well known back then for his amazing memory, observation, and deduction skill. He was a real life Sherlock Holmes.
Dr. Joseph Bell, one of his teachers in med school. The man could look a patient up and down, tell you his hometown, occupation, and medical condition.
for those who say that 'Sherlock Holmes is not real,' you are partially right but you are also partially wrong. Sir Author Conan Doyle created his fictional character based on a real person whom he used to know. so Sherlock is actually a fictional version of that real person. and yes, there are people who have extraordinary observation skills which can be learned by special type of training.
Lucas Vasconcelos not teacher, no. sir arthur conan doyle served as a clerk for Dr. Joseph Bell, and loosely based Holmes on him and his excellent observation skills
Which nevertheless doesn't get rid of the limits and need for precautions in trying to infer lessons and analogies from fictional exaggerations. Doyle also believed in fairies, by the way.
I mean Imagination is important but it can be wrong sometimes , while knowledge is something most people already thought about it and it’s mostly right
This is so so good. Selective attention is crucial to developing your own personality and strengthening your strengths and striving towards your goals with efficiency. I find.
Read her book "Mastermind" (if you haven't already). She goes over selective attention and many other concepts in it. One of the best reads I've ever had.
The big badass philosophers like Plato, Augustine, Aristotle were so good at what they were doing because they remembered hundreds of books by heart. How did they do it? They made a garden in their mind- Each tree, bush or flower patch is a book, the details of it are in the placement of it, how the leaves look, what colors correspond to what topics, all about the connections.
Why are you undervaluing her ambition in analyzing sherlock's seat? It's obvious that she knows he isn't a real being. But his mind is real. Whoever came up with the being of sherlock holmes must have met, or been a passionate machine like himself. Sociopaths will always revolutionize ideas, maybe his diagnose isn't even a problem. Isn't it just our feeble minds in comparision who thinks he's facing more issues then solutions? Maria explaining it here is not a reason for you to get fixated around her not-being-a perfect talker.
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 RUclips :) To read my review & short summary on Maria Konnikova's Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes (2013), CLICK HERE: www.richardangelus.me/2018/08/mastermind-how-to-think-like-sherlock.html?m=1
She is right thou. My aunt can do what Sherlock does. But again she is freaking smart with an IQ of 180+ She can subconsciously see from details of you,where you lost something in your room(for example) People think it's psychic ,but this explanation is pretty spot on. I think the explanation of Daniel Kahneman in the book Thinking Fast and Slow, about intuition is also pretty spot on.
Everybody is talking about a master logician, who practically was a doctor. But there were MANY! To learn, is easy. I observe learning techniques, (not for academic stuff) and they help me to recognize many factors about a person. Confidence pays a great deal here.
Experience in every field, not just scientific, can allow you to go tackle something with a prepared mindset. To prepare yourself to concentrate on the "signal" and push aside the "noise". I know at work I can now do that with almost any piece of machinery. I know to avoid looking at the overwhelming noise of events around it and concentrate only on the sources of energy to the point that's causing trouble. Some people can do this innately but it's very rare.
Darren Brown the illusionist/hypnotist has mastered this art of deduction in reading people. He has made videos on RUclips and a Netflix special. It’s actually quite amazing, a real life Sherlock Holmes.
Not only mindfulness and observation, but I think the most important aspect is the understanding of the dependence of causality - of causes and effect - of dependent origination of all things, how they are arising through causes (and sustained by conditions). And the complete non-construction and non-assuming. Then this burning flame of observation, mere silence, is directed at any object to discover it's nature and its origin, without construction or any created suppositions.
Incredible how often people speak of SH as a real person. What a compliment to Doyle. I'm not saying they don't realise he's fictional, just that he is incredibly well-realised.
People in the workplace would benefit greatly from practicing this mindset. I find meetings to be excessively long and unproductive when some attendees don't keep the goal in mind and sidetrack. What is mentioned here is great advice!
My favorite way to teach the scientific method is to tell "long form" riddles. A long form riddle is a riddle which provides very, very little information-- so you have to ask "yes or no" questions gather more information by which to develop a hypothesis. You can take it a step further. Separate students in groups of 4. Each round, they only get to ask 5 questions. This teaches them that resources are limited-- and their research questions have to focus on key gaps in knowledge to win.
+marcvesper The unconscious mind is unparalleled at bringing substancial information for the very snitchy moment. Makes you wonder where all that intuition comes from, past lives? Deeper understanding of life and energy? That what we see and believe is barely not in our capabilities?
read the description....that would be a start. And she is correct in the sense that her analogy of the scientific method holds up. She's simply saying the Holmes himself, uses his memory in this way, and that one can do the same with the right practice and training. I'm not saying I can, but it is possible.
also, what i know for sure it works for remembering stuff is the three steps meditation, step 3. relaxing your body part by part. step 2. imagine yourself in the most peaceful place you was or you would like to be. step 1. imagine yourself opening an channel for energy in your chest... imagine the energy flowing in you.. Now your mind is empty from any distraction, you can start searching what you want. This technique is also very useful if you are trying to program yourself, is great for NLP :D
Fiction may not follow the same rules as reality, but the people that write fiction are firmly grounded in reality. Superman can't teach you how to fly, but maybe he can teach you about heroic qualities and responsibility. She said it was about organizing thoughts, knowing what details to look for, and focusing on the important details to get information. Then, she said after having information, you should stand back and question it, and go over every single possibility you may have missed.
What is funny is I am autodidact polymath 20 fields of mastery that I have innovated and made discoveries. She is describing exactly how my brain works from thousands of hours in different fields I weave them together to solve problems as real life Sherlock Holmes. Cryptologic linguist, human intelligence collector etc. above all else deductive reasoning sends me to precise locations and tells me what happened even hundreds of years ago. Extracting information out of locations and objects
Holmes Family is also like Holmes the thinking , maybe it was some sort of family tradition. To teach their children how to think that way. Maybe , but it’s actually good idea. To even teach your children.
That's right, though Doyle actually stated that he created Sherlock Holmes by his professor Dr. John Bell, he was amazed at Bells talent for observation, which he used to identify his patients better.
I really do not understand why the attacks, she was using Sherlock Holmes to explain a theory, that sound valid to me. Even if Sherlock was a Character born from the mind of a writer, she was comparing the mental abilities of Holmes solving crimes, to her perception and many others about how much trash we have in our mind that block us and was giving a hint in how to work around those. At the same time she try to sold a book that maybe pay for her University Loans. Thanks for the presentation.
+Sistla Eeshan I've been observing people for a while now and I was scrolling through the comments looking for this one comment to see if anyone else noticed. Ha.
She only uses Holmes as an example, so people can relate to something they already know. That helps people understanding what she wants to tell them, and I think everyone should to that, when explaning something, even if they give a complete fictional example.
Did you know that Edger Allan Poe created Sherlock Holmes? I just learned about this today. He created a character in his inductive reasoning stories with the same appearance and abilities as our beloved Sherlock today. Arthur Doyle used his character as inspiration for creating his Sherlock Holmes series. Cool right?
This is great. But it's easily observed while reading the Sherlock Holmes series, and Holmes on a number of occasions explains his own methods and how he came to his level of expertise. Great books. :)
I think that is exactly what she is saying, that the brain is capable of processing information faster with training, that for easier retrieval of significant information you can consciously attend or direct your attention to the relevant or important bits of information in order to keep them at the forefront instead of floating around somewhere in the back of your mind.
I read all the Sherlock Holmes stories when I was young. I had the early impression that Holmes's brilliance was made possible by Doyle's storytelling tricks. Deep deductions that upon reflection are clearly fictional. Made for great reading and it does enhance the realms of possibility.
I already know about Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Nostalgia and worship of the past aside, the guy was basically a pop comic book writer before anyone could afford to make comic books. He wrote short multi-part action-adventure stories for newpapers and then published them in books. I like Stan Lee as much as the next guy, but it is a bit of a stretch to say people should strive to be Peter Parker, Bruce Banner or Tony Stark or that they are perfect representations of people.
Why? I enjoyed it her talk -- learning how to optimize your own thinking, decision-making and so on...it's something I think everyone could benefit from.
you know, come to think of it, when i was about 14 my sister introduced me to 'murders in the rue morgue' and i told her that the guy reminded me of holmes. very cool indeed!
Yeah! That's pretty much what I took from Konnikova's video: the cognitive process utilized by Sherlock Holmes is application of the scientific method.
Arthur Conan Doyle was also a physician and "was also a fervent advocate of justice and personally investigated two closed cases, which led to two men being exonerated of the crimes of which they were accused." So, he had all the making of Sherlock Holmes, which is why he wrote Sherlock Holmes.
She graduated magna cum laude from Harvard where she studied psychology and she wrote a series in Scientific American called "Lessons from Sherlock Holmes".She said Sherlock was probably born with a greater potential for these things (like some people are born with a greater potential for music/math [Mozart/Einstein]). But the potential means nothing without practice.More practice in a field leads to stronger connections in your brain. But even then, you could never be totally like Sherlock...
I've been reading her book and I love it - her mentor is actually Stephen Pinker which I didn't know and it's a great book on helping you in decision-making and better judgement. Daniel Kahneman wrote about System1(Watson)/System2(Holmes) in his wonderful book "Thinking Slow and Fast" about all the foibles of System 1, but Maria's book actually helps you to try to aid you in being in System2 more, and not in the blase auto-pilot of System1 which is how we normally are.
Everyone is asking why Sherlock Holmes, the question isn't about him it's about the method of thinking, observation and judgement that is like his, which is possible to accomplish, movies just tend not to speak about them. These kinds of geniuses are found in the army, in economics, in areas where you really use this skill you mastered. So giving a clear example is a little difficult. It's all about the way you analyse the world around you, it's what everyone sees differently.
Holmes is a character. It does not have thousands of hours of expertise, Doyle (the author) has reverse-engineered all the situations in order for Holmes to appear to have such almost super-natural ability at observing as to be the greatest detective ever. Following Maria's logic, Spock also teach us how to be logical, and Bene-Geserit mantra magically helps us to be fearless. Oh, and we totally are just batteries in a huge computer world... Really?!?
On the point of what is innate with Asperger's, there is an undeniable element of hyperfocus based in part on the limitation of what's being taken in. That is exactly the element of focus she is talking about. For a lot of Aspies and PDDs it doesn't have to be cultivated. It is innate and self-reenforcing.
I've been wondering about this for a long time, i just can't seem to have the mind to it all the time... i'm sure it's possible to train this mindfullness.
I outlined the hyper-focus thing because that was my original point, which you seemed to miss. You instead conjured the point that talent was it. I didn't say talent was it, I said that that particular type of focus doesn't always have to be cultivated. And in cases like the ficticious Holmes, it's likely the difference. Not that it couldn't be refined and didn't have to be applied.
I agree, the bustle of one's neural activity is a very outstanding biological process, and bounds towards a notion of infinity. But, the turmoil within this neurological behaviors only affirms the limited capacities of cognition. Individual memories become adjusted as more information is perceived; this lack of static recollection manifests how one's brain is like a bucket in a very broad manner.
You're right. I wonder if we can call that learning at all then. Maybe it's a whole different process that's similar to creating through our projection into these figures.
How can so manny of you not get over the fact that she is mentioning Sherlock Holmes? She is using a popular subject as an example to get her point across, and that is all there is to it.
I wanted to ask you about the step of being OBSERVANT. How do you separate situation from interpretation? I understand the difference between passive and active engagement. But active engagement is so hard to not do especially as a methodical thinker. How much do you passively engage in before you actually begin to make judgement? For example when I'm in class do I just passively listen to my teacher or should not I actively think about what she is saying? HELPPPP
The trouble with Holme's theory about the mind being an "attic" is that we now know that it's false. Even filling our mind with new data every day, we'll never be able to "overfill" it. When I was in highschool, a friend suggested that if I were to focus only on physics, I could do great things in the discipline. I now realize that that is false also. The more other things I do--music, writing, tinkering, learning about other disciplines--the more it helps my science.
Actually, that's why I commented on it in the first place. I've done some studies into the character out of boredom and I've eliminated the probability that Holmes may have had Asperger's by listing down the traits and habits of the guy and narrowing it down -- and apparently everything fits better with the Sociopath hypothesis. What I referred to with "useless" was how Holmes' would be exactly that with regards to disguises if he had Asperger's; he'd blow his cover too often. 1/?
You do realize she uses Sherlock Holmes because he is someone most people have heard of and was a genius. So she was trying to say how we can think like Holmes would have thought, so you might want to see some of her other videos.
Thanks for your reply, I think you helped me better understand the real purpose of this video. Indeed, child education is made via some non-traditional channels these days and we must be able to sneak all the suggestions we need using all the things that resonate in the children's minds. After all, not long ago the comic books heroes were quite real for us and we used them as role models... So, I was in the wrong. Sorry.
What she is really good at is at talking fast and dumping ideas on the ears of those around her, which stuns those with attention span of less than 30 seconds. She does have a solid concept though. Nonetheless, the real trick here is that this is BASIC stuff. Moreover, Its not even THE STUFF-she is simply informing you that STUFF exists. And that is what she is selling. An average person would feel, however, as if he is let into a chamber of secrets of the human mind. Have fun. :)
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Did you just post this comment or only change it? Could be a glitch but it says this is posted 2 years ago where most of the other comments (viewer curated) are 4-6 years ago. Either way I’d try a more directed approach. Namely one based on the above video.
Also, getting smarter is something more intellectuals seek than ignorants. I’m not surprised you chose this path of marketing as your channel name is, “Bug Think” (also a more intellectual endeavor but regardless). My point is you’re doing great if you want the class disparity of intellect to match that of Americas social economic status. However, if your goal is to spread knowledge to as many people as possible I would do a more targeted approach
You know Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was a genius when people talk about one of his characters as if he is a real person. :D
Mr Mann h
He believed in fairies.
@Excalibeer he solved the cases of George Edalgi and Oscar Slater. Look em up. He was even assigned the case of Jack the reaper........
Whether he's real or fiction, I think it is fair to say that we know Holmes better than we know virtually every real person--maybe including ourselves. That is not the power of Doyle, but the power of literature.
Holmes is actually based on Doyle's professor which was very well known back then for his amazing memory, observation, and deduction skill. He was a real life Sherlock Holmes.
Holmes isn't real, but Conan Doyle actually based Sherlock on a teacher he had, who just happened to be a master in the science of deduction.
Who was his teacher?
@@frankkirbyiii2368 Joseph Bell
*thought he based Holmes on another detective, french fella. . .Eugène Vidoc
Dr. Joseph Bell, one of his teachers in med school. The man could look a patient up and down, tell you his hometown, occupation, and medical condition.
@@SiliconBong could be various people,but his teacher is the main one
for those who say that 'Sherlock Holmes is not real,' you are partially right but you are also partially wrong. Sir Author Conan Doyle created his fictional character based on a real person whom he used to know. so Sherlock is actually a fictional version of that real person. and yes, there are people who have extraordinary observation skills which can be learned by special type of training.
based on Doyle's teacher with lots of fiction.
Lucas Vasconcelos not teacher, no. sir arthur conan doyle served as a clerk for Dr. Joseph Bell, and loosely based Holmes on him and his excellent observation skills
Matt search for Colin Cloud, he calls himself the closest thing of being Sherlock Holmes
Which nevertheless doesn't get rid of the limits and need for precautions in trying to infer lessons and analogies from fictional exaggerations. Doyle also believed in fairies, by the way.
Holmes was jacked up on opiates.
"Imagination is more important than knowledge." - Albert Einstein
It depends.
I mean Imagination is important but it can be wrong sometimes , while knowledge is something most people already thought about it and it’s mostly right
This is so so good. Selective attention is crucial to developing your own personality and strengthening your strengths and striving towards your goals with efficiency. I find.
Read her book "Mastermind" (if you haven't already). She goes over selective attention and many other concepts in it. One of the best reads I've ever had.
Reason is a beauty to behold. Very nicely done.
Wow I’ve found a LibertyPen comment from 7 years ago and 0 likes... hello!
i am in love with this lady
Yeah, she's intelligent, sincere, and pretty in a comfortable way.
You are 13
The big badass philosophers like Plato, Augustine, Aristotle were so good at what they were doing because they remembered hundreds of books by heart. How did they do it? They made a garden in their mind- Each tree, bush or flower patch is a book, the details of it are in the placement of it, how the leaves look, what colors correspond to what topics, all about the connections.
Why are you undervaluing her ambition in analyzing sherlock's seat? It's obvious that she knows he isn't a real being. But his mind is real. Whoever came up with the being of sherlock holmes must have met, or been a passionate machine like himself. Sociopaths will always revolutionize ideas, maybe his diagnose isn't even a problem. Isn't it just our feeble minds in comparision who thinks he's facing more issues then solutions? Maria explaining it here is not a reason for you to get fixated around her not-being-a perfect talker.
The character of Sherlock Holmes is based on Joseph Bell, a physician known to Arthur Conan Doyle.
Sherlock was objectively not a sociopath lol
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 RUclips :)
To read my review & short summary on Maria Konnikova's Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes (2013), CLICK HERE: www.richardangelus.me/2018/08/mastermind-how-to-think-like-sherlock.html?m=1
She is right thou. My aunt can do what Sherlock does. But again she is freaking smart with an IQ of 180+
She can subconsciously see from details of you,where you lost something in your room(for example)
People think it's psychic ,but this explanation is pretty spot on.
I think the explanation of Daniel Kahneman in the book Thinking Fast and Slow, about intuition is also pretty spot on.
This book i consider temperated air.
And doyle in real life was foolish sometimes, falling for daft hoaxes.
Everybody is talking about a master logician, who practically was a doctor. But there were MANY! To learn, is easy. I observe learning techniques, (not for academic stuff) and they help me to recognize many factors about a person. Confidence pays a great deal here.
I really liked this video. I'm a huge Holmes fan and hope they would release the next season already.
Experience in every field, not just scientific, can allow you to go tackle something with a prepared mindset. To prepare yourself to concentrate on the "signal" and push aside the "noise". I know at work I can now do that with almost any piece of machinery. I know to avoid looking at the overwhelming noise of events around it and concentrate only on the sources of energy to the point that's causing trouble. Some people can do this innately but it's very rare.
Darren Brown the illusionist/hypnotist has mastered this art of deduction in reading people. He has made videos on RUclips and a Netflix special. It’s actually quite amazing, a real life Sherlock Holmes.
Using my Sherlock observation skills, I have deduced that she is in the middle of having a cold and didn't get quality sleep in a few days.
Indeed!
"But the Solar System!" I protested.
"What the deuce is it to me"
Not only mindfulness and observation, but I think the most important aspect is the understanding of the dependence of causality - of causes and effect - of dependent origination of all things, how they are arising through causes (and sustained by conditions). And the complete non-construction and non-assuming. Then this burning flame of observation, mere silence, is directed at any object to discover it's nature and its origin, without construction or any created suppositions.
She is cute.
Boho Farhan!!! It’s ‘none’ and ‘business’ .
Incredible how often people speak of SH as a real person. What a compliment to Doyle. I'm not saying they don't realise he's fictional, just that he is incredibly well-realised.
Maria Sharapova + Anna Kournikova + Spelling error = Maria Konnikova
Am I Sherlock Holmes now?
Alpha_Centauri What?
Lightning Farron they're tennis people
People in the workplace would benefit greatly from practicing this mindset. I find meetings to be excessively long and unproductive when some attendees don't keep the goal in mind and sidetrack. What is mentioned here is great advice!
Why is everyone in this comment section missing the point? I'm suprised how stupid and condescending everyone seems to be
Agreed
Same here
Because Sherlock Holmes was a cocaine addict, and therefor she is condoning drug use.
My favorite way to teach the scientific method is to tell "long form" riddles. A long form riddle is a riddle which provides very, very little information-- so you have to ask "yes or no" questions gather more information by which to develop a hypothesis.
You can take it a step further.
Separate students in groups of 4. Each round, they only get to ask 5 questions. This teaches them that resources are limited-- and their research questions have to focus on key gaps in knowledge to win.
The difference between intuition and empiricism is whether or not the data-collection and processing is mostly unconscious or mostly conscious.
+marcvesper The unconscious mind is unparalleled at bringing substancial information for the very snitchy moment. Makes you wonder where all that intuition comes from, past lives? Deeper understanding of life and energy? That what we see and believe is barely not in our capabilities?
read the description....that would be a start. And she is correct in the sense that her analogy of the scientific method holds up. She's simply saying the Holmes himself, uses his memory in this way, and that one can do the same with the right practice and training. I'm not saying I can, but it is possible.
Holmes wasn`t born Holmes, Holmes wasn`t born at all. Hahahah
Exactly what I thought! Ha, ha. And to think that some people believe in legendary figures like unicorns or Giuseppe Verdi. (LOL!)
It is about his mindset you dumbass!
also, what i know for sure it works for remembering stuff is the three steps meditation, step 3. relaxing your body part by part.
step 2. imagine yourself in the most peaceful place you was or you would like to be.
step 1. imagine yourself opening an channel for energy in your chest... imagine the energy flowing in you.. Now your mind is empty from any distraction, you can start searching what you want. This technique is also very useful if you are trying to program yourself, is great for NLP :D
I’m so mad at myself, the second you stop focusing you start playing yourself xD
Fiction may not follow the same rules as reality, but the people that write fiction are firmly grounded in reality. Superman can't teach you how to fly, but maybe he can teach you about heroic qualities and responsibility.
She said it was about organizing thoughts, knowing what details to look for, and focusing on the important details to get information. Then, she said after having information, you should stand back and question it, and go over every single possibility you may have missed.
What is funny is I am autodidact polymath 20 fields of mastery that I have innovated and made discoveries. She is describing exactly how my brain works from thousands of hours in different fields I weave them together to solve problems as real life Sherlock Holmes. Cryptologic linguist, human intelligence collector etc. above all else deductive reasoning sends me to precise locations and tells me what happened even hundreds of years ago. Extracting information out of locations and objects
Recently got to reading Mastermind for the first time. Still can't believe what I was missing till now...
It is very important to discuss this process... as this is very powerful technique. Thank you so much.
I'm in love.
Holmes Family is also like Holmes the thinking , maybe it was some sort of family tradition. To teach their children how to think that way. Maybe , but it’s actually good idea. To even teach your children.
Finally an accurate title!
That's right, though Doyle actually stated that he created Sherlock Holmes by his professor Dr. John Bell, he was amazed at Bells talent for observation, which he used to identify his patients better.
"How can we train our brains to think like Sherlock Holmes?"
be fictional?
one of the best speakers on this channel so far, great vid!
In the show his mind was A MIND PALACE (I'm a fangirl help)
If only there was a medium containing more or less the sum of human knowledge we could refer to in order to clarify this... :)
+Alyssa Wicks
lol :3
I have a mind phallus.Opps mind palace.Sorry.
Same
I really do not understand why the attacks, she was using Sherlock Holmes to explain a theory, that sound valid to me. Even if Sherlock was a Character born from the mind of a writer, she was comparing the mental abilities of Holmes solving crimes, to her perception and many others about how much trash we have in our mind that block us and was giving a hint in how to work around those. At the same time she try to sold a book that maybe pay for her University Loans. Thanks for the presentation.
She is nervous!
Sistla Eeshan Brilliant deduction, dum dum. You're Sherlock Holmes now.
+rustamshow Handsome Jack? :0
+Sistla Eeshan I've been observing people for a while now and I was scrolling through the comments looking for this one comment to see if anyone else noticed. Ha.
She only uses Holmes as an example, so people can relate to something they already know. That helps people understanding what she wants to tell them, and I think everyone should to that, when explaning something, even if they give a complete fictional example.
Child's mind
Claude Jester What?
She has a voice I could listen to eternally.
never see you before but i think you are 30-32 years old by now.. and facial structure of yours tell that you r a Russian.
You can make that guess from her last name
creeeeeepy
She is, however, Ashkenazi Jewish rather than Russian.
She is right handed and a little bit minimalist
Drewdcruze So?
Did you know that Edger Allan Poe created Sherlock Holmes? I just learned about this today. He created a character in his inductive reasoning stories with the same appearance and abilities as our beloved Sherlock today. Arthur Doyle used his character as inspiration for creating his Sherlock Holmes series. Cool right?
Wait, she understands that Sherlock Holmes is a fictional, made up character, right?
Joseph Bell
He might as well be real. Sherlock Holmes was awarded a Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Wait, how is that possible? Wouldn't Doyle have won it then, posthumously?
research dr joseph bell, he is who sherlock is based on
Holmes fictional? Don't let Robert Downey, Jr. hear you say that, or he might put on his armor and do some damage!
This series is amazing.. Thank you
Hey Watson I think you've been in Afghanistan?? Did he join the taliban or something?
Yeah i was like WTH ?! Lol
Wrote a thesis once in yesteryear,
the mountainous piles did bring a tear,
the words I wrote for literary gain,
but completely irrelevant to my aim.
But Sherlock Holmes wasn't real.
He was loosely based on Joseph Bell
This is great. But it's easily observed while reading the Sherlock Holmes series, and Holmes on a number of occasions explains his own methods and how he came to his level of expertise. Great books. :)
I think that is exactly what she is saying, that the brain is capable of processing information faster with training, that for easier retrieval of significant information you can consciously attend or direct your attention to the relevant or important bits of information in order to keep them at the forefront instead of floating around somewhere in the back of your mind.
I read all the Sherlock Holmes stories when I was young. I had the early impression that Holmes's brilliance was made possible by Doyle's storytelling tricks. Deep deductions that upon reflection are clearly fictional. Made for great reading and it does enhance the realms of possibility.
wow! I am surprised you link your ideas so well. Very nice Maria! and thanks
Avoiding cognative bias is important.
I already know about Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Nostalgia and worship of the past aside, the guy was basically a pop comic book writer before anyone could afford to make comic books. He wrote short multi-part action-adventure stories for newpapers and then published them in books.
I like Stan Lee as much as the next guy, but it is a bit of a stretch to say people should strive to be Peter Parker, Bruce Banner or Tony Stark or that they are perfect representations of people.
Why? I enjoyed it her talk -- learning how to optimize your own thinking, decision-making and so on...it's something I think everyone could benefit from.
you know, come to think of it, when i was about 14 my sister introduced me to 'murders in the rue morgue' and i told her that the guy reminded me of holmes. very cool indeed!
I was listening to you on Irish radio today! :) Really enjoyed it!
I am a realist mastermind and I find the understanding of people and the place around to be elementory.
i like this mindset and i'm wondering which books out there would best develop this further; does anyone know of any book please?
Yeah! That's pretty much what I took from Konnikova's video: the cognitive process utilized by Sherlock Holmes is application of the scientific method.
she makes some very good points. most inspiring !! thank you.
Arthur Conan Doyle was also a physician and "was also a fervent advocate of justice and personally investigated two closed cases, which led to two men being exonerated of the crimes of which they were accused."
So, he had all the making of Sherlock Holmes, which is why he wrote Sherlock Holmes.
She graduated magna cum laude from Harvard where she studied psychology and she wrote a series in Scientific American called "Lessons from Sherlock Holmes".She said Sherlock was probably born with a greater potential for these things (like some people are born with a greater potential for music/math [Mozart/Einstein]). But the potential means nothing without practice.More practice in a field leads to stronger connections in your brain. But even then, you could never be totally like Sherlock...
that was excellent analysis.
I wanted to figure out how to express that same thought but couldn't put it into words lol thank you.
I've been reading her book and I love it - her mentor is actually Stephen Pinker which I didn't know and it's a great book on helping you in decision-making and better judgement. Daniel Kahneman wrote about System1(Watson)/System2(Holmes) in his wonderful book "Thinking Slow and Fast" about all the foibles of System 1, but Maria's book actually helps you to try to aid you in being in System2 more, and not in the blase auto-pilot of System1 which is how we normally are.
Yes, I think it is the literature reference is much more mainstream in a way for the majority of the veiwers to understand the video.
Everyone is asking why Sherlock Holmes, the question isn't about him it's about the method of thinking, observation and judgement that is like his, which is possible to accomplish, movies just tend not to speak about them. These kinds of geniuses are found in the army, in economics, in areas where you really use this skill you mastered. So giving a clear example is a little difficult.
It's all about the way you analyse the world around you, it's what everyone sees differently.
Really love this channel thank you.
Thank you,kindly.
Holmes is a character. It does not have thousands of hours of expertise, Doyle (the author) has reverse-engineered all the situations in order for Holmes to appear to have such almost super-natural ability at observing as to be the greatest detective ever. Following Maria's logic, Spock also teach us how to be logical, and Bene-Geserit mantra magically helps us to be fearless. Oh, and we totally are just batteries in a huge computer world... Really?!?
On the point of what is innate with Asperger's, there is an undeniable element of hyperfocus based in part on the limitation of what's being taken in. That is exactly the element of focus she is talking about. For a lot of Aspies and PDDs it doesn't have to be cultivated. It is innate and self-reenforcing.
this is very helpful....
I've been wondering about this for a long time, i just can't seem to have the mind to it all the time... i'm sure it's possible to train this mindfullness.
I outlined the hyper-focus thing because that was my original point, which you seemed to miss. You instead conjured the point that talent was it. I didn't say talent was it, I said that that particular type of focus doesn't always have to be cultivated. And in cases like the ficticious Holmes, it's likely the difference. Not that it couldn't be refined and didn't have to be applied.
I agree, the bustle of one's neural activity is a very outstanding biological process, and bounds towards a notion of infinity. But, the turmoil within this neurological behaviors only affirms the limited capacities of cognition. Individual memories become adjusted as more information is perceived; this lack of static recollection manifests how one's brain is like a bucket in a very broad manner.
You're right. I wonder if we can call that learning at all then.
Maybe it's a whole different process that's similar to creating through our projection into these figures.
Is there are video that goes into this more in depth?
Awesome! Loved it! :)
How can so manny of you not get over the fact that she is mentioning Sherlock Holmes? She is using a popular subject as an example to get her point across, and that is all there is to it.
I wanted to ask you about the step of being OBSERVANT. How do you separate situation from interpretation? I understand the difference between passive and active engagement. But active engagement is so hard to not do especially as a methodical thinker. How much do you passively engage in before you actually begin to make judgement? For example when I'm in class do I just passively listen to my teacher or should not I actively think about what she is saying? HELPPPP
i love this channel
This is really interesting. I might have to read her book
I already know about the scientific method thanks
The trouble with Holme's theory about the mind being an "attic" is that we now know that it's false. Even filling our mind with new data every day, we'll never be able to "overfill" it. When I was in highschool, a friend suggested that if I were to focus only on physics, I could do great things in the discipline. I now realize that that is false also. The more other things I do--music, writing, tinkering, learning about other disciplines--the more it helps my science.
Actually, that's why I commented on it in the first place. I've done some studies into the character out of boredom and I've eliminated the probability that Holmes may have had Asperger's by listing down the traits and habits of the guy and narrowing it down -- and apparently everything fits better with the Sociopath hypothesis. What I referred to with "useless" was how Holmes' would be exactly that with regards to disguises if he had Asperger's; he'd blow his cover too often. 1/?
Thanks!
She’s beautiful.
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You do realize she uses Sherlock Holmes because he is someone most people have heard of and was a genius. So she was trying to say how we can think like Holmes would have thought, so you might want to see some of her other videos.
I love this lady 💕😊 love how she drives home the lesson 🏠 🎉
Thanks for your reply, I think you helped me better understand the real purpose of this video. Indeed, child education is made via some non-traditional channels these days and we must be able to sneak all the suggestions we need using all the things that resonate in the children's minds. After all, not long ago the comic books heroes were quite real for us and we used them as role models... So, I was in the wrong. Sorry.
Thank you
What she is really good at is at talking fast and dumping ideas on the ears of those around her, which stuns those with attention span of less than 30 seconds. She does have a solid concept though.
Nonetheless, the real trick here is that this is BASIC stuff. Moreover, Its not even THE STUFF-she is simply informing you that STUFF exists. And that is what she is selling.
An average person would feel, however, as if he is let into a chamber of secrets of the human mind.
Have fun. :)
Awesome video