Think Like Sherlock Holmes Flashcards
The phrase elementary my dear Watson has a deeper meaning which is
A very big problem can always be broken down into its fundamentals, the very basis of what make it what it is and how does it work.
When Feynman ask students what makes it go and they all answered energy what was his outcry
Energy is just a word!! What truly makes it go are springs. Cells, chemical changes. Energy was just the high level not really understand view
Always remember the ______, the _____ that lay underneath each question and each principle
Building blocks, elements. And use these as starting points for something new
Whatever the specific issue, you must ________ it in your mind as _______ as possible. And then you must fill it with _______
Define and formulate, specifically, past experience (knowledge) and present observation
Define Scientific method
Understand and frame the problem’ observe; hypothesize (or imagine); test and deduce; repeat
One characteristic of Holmes’s thinking is a ______________ towards the world. Nothing is taken at face value. Everything is scrutinized and considered, and only then accepted or not
Natural skepticism and inquisitiveness
Our brains must _______ in order to process it. Discovered by _________
Believe, Daniel Gilbert
To move from system Watson to system Holmes- it
Takes mindfulness and motivation. To think like Sherlock Holmes, we must want, actively to think like him
Mindfulness and Motivation is _____
The sense of constant presence of mind, the attentiveness and here news that is so essential for real active observation of the world. Motivation in a sense of active engagement and desire. You have to train it constantly in order to reap more and more benefits from it
Our motivation also effects our ability to _______ information
Encode information in a more remember able way. We must have a “rage to master”
Anders Ericsson argues that ___
Experts see the world differently within there area of expertise: they see things that the untrained eye would not normally see. They see the details as part of a whole and know at once what is crucial and what is not.
The brain attic theory and how I disagree with it a little
“A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things, so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it. Now the skillful workman is very careful indeed as to what he takes into his brain-attic.”
You are not an expert in the field. Therefore you must build a “filter, organize, and label room” before you put it in the main storage.
There is a difference between _____ and _______. Never mistake mindlessness for mindfulness, a _____ with a ____
Seeing and observing, passive approach and active approach
The attics (or house) structure is how our minds work. Describe it in detail
It’s how it takes in information and process that information. You would ask things like how do I recover information I’ve stored. How do I deposit information. Where will it go. How will it be marked. How would it be integrated
The attics contents are
All our previous knowledge and experiences that we’ve had in our lives
Our memory is a large part in the starting point for ___
How we think, how our preferences form, and how we make decisions.
System Watson mode _____ the memories to store
Doesn’t get to choose
The idea of knowledge…
We know only what we can remember at any given point in time, no amount of knowledge will save us if we can’t recall it the moment we need it.
What is MTR and how does it affect memory
MTR is motivation to remember and it greatly increases the chance of remembering material later on. Try telling yourself, this I want to remember. Of course no amount of MTR will help if the information wasn’t stored properly to begin with.
What way will make memories stronger then just repeating it?
Manipulating information, playing around with it, talking it through, Making it come alive in stories and gestures, things of that nature
Our brains are wired for ______, that simplify task of taking in and evaluating the countless inputs our environment throws at us every second
Quick judgements, equipped with back roads and shortcuts
It is of first importance not to allow your ______ to be biased by ______
Judgement, personal qualities
I never make ____. An ______ disproves a rule.
Exceptions
Experiments have demonstrated that when something in the environment, be it an image or a person or a word, serves as….
A prime that allows individuals to access related concepts better.
A bad prime stops being a prime once we are..
Aware of its existence. Always ask yourself. Is something superfluous to the matter at hand influencing my judgement at any given point? (Answer is almost always yes) . If so, how do I adjust my perception accordingly? What has influenced my first impression and has that first impression influenced others.
Observation is not just about a passive process of letting objects into your visual field. It is about…
Knowing what and how to observe something. Directing your attention accordingly: What details do you focus on? What details do you omit? Howe do you take in and capture those details that you choose to zoom in on?
Choosing wisely means being…..
Selective, it means not only looking but looking properly with real thought.
Looking properly at what you note and how you note is important. It’s about….
Seeing the full picture, noting the details that matter, and understanding how to contextual ice those details within a broader framework of thought
Paying attention is anything but…
Elementary
Describe the DMN
The default mode network is what seems to be our default state of mind which is wandering. This baseline activity suggest the brain is constantly gathering information from both the external and internal world and what’s more monitoring that information for something worth paying attention to
Paying attention is a
Limited resource we must master
You have to duplicate the same process, to let your brain study and learn and ….
Make the effort full, effortless
Watson system is _____ to train
Hard, it likes what it likes, trust what it trust and that’s that
What’s the solution to overcome Watson system hard to train trait?
By forcing the Sherlock system to take over. You do this by implementing Checklist, Formulas, Structured procedures things of that nature
Psychologist Roy Baumeister uses the analogy of a muscle to talk about??
Self control - It only has so many exertions on it then it needs rest, physical rest and mental rest. But like a muscle it can be trained to be stronger and stronger
The lack of attention isn’t what effects us.. It’s the..
Lack of mindfulness and direction
What are the four rules of Sherlock Holmes attention
Selectivity, Objectivity, Inclusivity, and engagement
Why is being selective important?
It will help direct your mind, prime it, with goals and thoughts that are actually important
Holmes doesn’t theorize before he has the …..
Data, But he does always form a précis plan of attack: He defines his objectives and the necessary elements for achieving them
Psychologist Peter Gollwitzer found 5 things that helped people set goals and engage in goal directed behavior. What are they?
- ) Thinking ahead or viewing the situation as just one moment on a larger, longer timescale and being able identify it as a point to get past in order to reach a better future point (remember don’t overload.
- )Being specific, or setting specific goals,or defining your end point as discretely as possible.
- ) Setting up if/then contingencies or thinking through a situation and understanding what would you do if a certain feature raised
- ) Writing everything down instead of thinking it so you can keep reviewing it and keep track.
- ) Thinking of both repercussions what happens if I fail and positive angles, the reward if you succeed
Start ____; Start _____; Start _____
Small, manageable and focused
How does the Heisenbergs uncertainty principle come into play when being objective?
The fact of actually observing something changes the thing being observed
psychologist Daniel Gilbert’s theory about being what we see says
We believe what we want to see and what our mind believes to see. Our brain encodes beliefs instead of facts and then think that we saw an objective fact when really what we remember seeing is only our limited perception at the time.
Franchise bacon once said “The human understand when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being aggreable on itself….______
Draws all things that will support and agree with it and deny all things that don’t
To observe, you must learn to separate situation from interpretation, yourself from what you’re seeing. A helpful exercise would be….
To describe the situation from the beginning, either out loud or in writing, as if to a stranger who isn’t aware of any of the specifics
But every time you find yourself making a judgement immediately upon observing - even if you don’t think you are - and even if anything sounds perfect you must
Train yourself to stop and repeat: It is impossible as I state it, and therefore I must in some respect have stated it wrong
Attention is about….
Using everyone of our senses and abilities to make the biggest impact. To take in information from all possible avenues in an organized fashion. And we have to realize our senses will affect us. Whether or not we are aware of it’s impact
Happy Prideful moods leads too…
Bad moods leads too
equal wider sight Self degradation (literally) and tunnel vision
When being inclusive, we never…
Forget that all of our senses are constantly in play. We don’t let them drive us but we enlist their help
The moment motivation and involvement flag..
No matter how far you’ve come, you’ll start slipping up
What 3 common things happen when we are engaged with what we are doing?
We persist longer on difficult problems
We experience flow
We will do it better and feel happier as a result (flow again I suppose)
Perception comes in two flavores passive and active. What are the difference between the two
Active is doing many things at once, while passive is a more controlled, we are observing one thing at a time slowly and focused.
Artie Kruglanski has spent his career studying a phenomenon known as the ______
Need for Closure: The desire of the mind to come to some definitive knowledge of an issue (think waitresses)
Give a detail example of how to effectively employ a need for closure
This can be accomplished in several ways. Most effectively, if we are made to feel accountable in our judgments, we will spend more time looking at angles and possibilities before making up our minds—and so will expend the correctional effort on any initial impressions, to make sure they are accurate. Our minds won’t “close” (or, as Kruglanski calls it, “freeze”) in their search until we are fairly sure we’ve done all we can. While there isn’t always an experimenter there to hold us accountable, we can do it for ourselves by setting up each important judgment or observation as a challenge.How accurate can I be? How well can I do? Can I improve my ability to pay attention over the last time? Such challenges not only engage us in the task of observation and make it more intrinsically interesting, but they also make us less likely to jump to conclusions and issue judgments without a lot of prior thought.
Why is imagination an essential next step of the thought process?
Imagination used the building blocks of all of the observations that you’ve collected to create the material that can serve as a solid base for future deduction
Explain the process of using observation and imagination with the brain attic?
Observing collects all the data and organize it while our imagination is like laying it all out and play around with them. What patterns can you see emerge?
Your imaginings have to be concrete, like they can jump from your head into the real world with little detail missing. Richard Feyman says that
Imaginings must have their base and must play by its rules and those rules include the observation you so diligently gathered. The game is to try and figure out what we know, what’s possible?
Describe functional fixed news
We tend to see objects the way they are presented, as serving a specific function that is already assigned. We can rename them with an abstract concept to prevent this
As a general rule, we dislike _____. It makes us uneasy, A _____ world is a much friendlier place
Uncertainty, Certain
What distinguishes great individuals isn’t a lack of failure but a lack of_____
Fear of Failure
Psychologist Yaacov Trope argues that _________ may be one of the single most important steps you can take to improve thinking and decision making
Psychological distance. Moments of distance include Time, Distance in space , How some else sees it, How things might of happened. Whatever the form they all require you to transcend the immediate moment in your mind. To take a step back.
Temporal, spatial, social, or hypothetical
Adults who are told to take a step back and imagine a situation from a more general perspective _________
Make better judgements and evaluations, have better self assume that and lower emotional reactivity
You always need to know two elements Which are….
The concrete specific pieces(their details and colors. What they tell you and what they suggest) and the broad, overall picture
Every so often it is important to distance yourself to allow your subconscious to work its magic. One example of distancing is _____
Change the activity entirely
Zeigarnik study this phenomenon on waiters and how it related to everyone
The need for closure leaves us unsettled, unable to rest. The cliffhanger ending. You create this need and it will motivate you to work harder, better, and work to completion
Describe the Power of Location and Environment
Your environment plays a large role on your inner reflection and state of mind due to the power of association. It can effect you mentally and physically without you even realizing it.
Describe our ability to view in others perspective
We find it difficult if not impossible. We tend to start with our on as an anchor point and adjust accordingly. We must ask questions like How would they react differently, How might he act given a specific set of circumstances? What might he think given certain inputs
Describe a response bias that ears on the egocentric side.
Once we find an answer that satisfies us we tend to stop looking. We take things at face value no matter how accurate or detailed the answer is
Mental Visualization
DO it
Describes Holmes Attics
Short term memory, Filter station, Big Room, Labeled Doors, Well Organized, and Mind Palace
