Thanks to Michael O’mara Books we’ve just received a copy of the new upcoming book ‘How To Think Like Sherlock’. The hardcover book is due for release on 11th October and can be pre-ordered from Amazon UK for £5.79.
About The Book - Copied from the Amazon UK book description‘You see, but you do not observe. The distinction is clear.’ Such were the words of the master detective Sherlock Holmes to Dr Watson, as he noted how his friend failed to implement Holmes’s techniques.In How to think like Sherlock you will learn how to increase your powers of observation, memory, deduction and reasoning using the tricks and techniques of the world’s most famous detective, Sherlock Holmes. The book incorporates the latest techniques and theories across a range of topics: NLP, memory mapping, body language, information shifting and speed reading - this is a supremely practical book that will make you look at the world in a new light, and more importantly, impress those around you.Packed full of case studies, quotes and trivia from Arthur Conan Doyle’s original novels and short stories, the book also includes a series of fun tasks and games for you to complete that will ensure that when you reach the end of the book you will be thinking like Sherlock Holmes, the master of the science of deduction. You will never look at a shirt cuff, trouser hem or scuff of dirt on a shoe in the same way again!

Thanks to Michael O’mara Books we’ve just received a copy of the new upcoming book ‘How To Think Like Sherlock’. The hardcover book is due for release on 11th October and can be pre-ordered from Amazon UK for £5.79.

About The Book - Copied from the Amazon UK book description

‘You see, but you do not observe. The distinction is clear.’ Such were the words of the master detective Sherlock Holmes to Dr Watson, as he noted how his friend failed to implement Holmes’s techniques.

In How to think like Sherlock you will learn how to increase your powers of observation, memory, deduction and reasoning using the tricks and techniques of the world’s most famous detective, Sherlock Holmes. The book incorporates the latest techniques and theories across a range of topics: NLP, memory mapping, body language, information shifting and speed reading - this is a supremely practical book that will make you look at the world in a new light, and more importantly, impress those around you.

Packed full of case studies, quotes and trivia from Arthur Conan Doyle’s original novels and short stories, the book also includes a series of fun tasks and games for you to complete that will ensure that when you reach the end of the book you will be thinking like Sherlock Holmes, the master of the science of deduction. You will never look at a shirt cuff, trouser hem or scuff of dirt on a shoe in the same way again!

How To Build Your Own Mind Palace

anotherboywholived:

I’ve been using a mind palace since my teens and never thought it odd until I saw tumblr’s reaction to Sherlock’s use of the technique. A couple days ago I found myself building an extension in order to cram for my philosophy exam the following day and I figured I’d use this as an example and get you all exploiting the genius of this method.

Because, frankly, that one on wikihow that’s been going around is a headache, and mine has bad jokes and Sherlock examples.

If anyone’s any further questions just hit up my ask and we’ll talk.

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For those of you interested in Sherlock’s use of a Mind Palace in ‘The Hounds of Baskerville’, you may find this Open University interview with Derren Brown enlightening (skip to 1 minute in for details on Memory Palaces.) Derren also discussed this subject in more depth in his book ‘Tricks of the Mind’.

Although many people have credited Derren for inspiring Mark Gatiss to include this in his episode in Sherlock series 2, he in fact confirmed on Twitter, “I first came across it in ‘Hannibal’, but Derren has been a help in so many ways.”

There’s also a short video on YouTube on how to improve your memory with the memory palace technique HERE