Himself Sherlock Holmes: how to develop intuition and deduction

We have seen many incarnations of Sherlock Holmes on the screen, some of them are very different. There is even a Sherlock Holmes anime-girl! What unites all these numerous Holmes, is the ability to quickly notice the details, compare them with each other and draw conclusions. Detective himself called it a deductive method.

Deduction - initially philosophical term that means forming an overall picture on the basis of particulars. There is also the induction, which is the opposite, that is, on the basis of the picture projected particular. Sherlock Holmes method involves the isolation of small details, facts and phenomena, and then "build" them into a coherent picture, which can respond to a particular question or give us a completely new fact unknown at first. Who owns the information, he owns the world, so it is difficult to overestimate the importance of such skills. For it does not need to have a brilliant brain and an innate talent, deductive ability to develop training. In addition, the great detective has repeatedly acknowledged that some of their conclusions were based on intuition. It should be recognized that intuition - is also an important part of the deductive method. In fact, it is not a blind knowledge that comes to us from above, and the result of the subconscious, which can also be trained.

Visual paramount

Information from our senses we get uneven, because the vast majority of it comes from the view. So train your visual memory and "nezamylenny eye" should be the first thing. To test your skills, try to reconstruct in memory the last meeting you in an unfamiliar place (someone else's office, new cafes and so on). What were wearing your interlocutors? It looked like the room? What decor and design elements have been around, how many and what furniture is in the room? Try to remember the last new acquaintance, with whom you have not had time to really make friends. The color of his eyes, what he usually wears, is there any dimples while smiling? If you can not remember too much, do not worry, this is perfectly normal. The brain receives visual information so that it is used to filter it as if you were reading the book "diagonally". The next time in a new location or with a new person try to look consciously. Imagine that you need to draw a plan of the room or draw it, and at the same time to make a portrait of the new acquaintance. It costs you only start paying attention to the details around how it will become a habit.

When natreniruete edgy look, you can try with the other senses. Listen to consciously breathe in the scents and feels the small things in order to feel its structure. This gives less information, but it allows the brain to switch and cheer.

A comprehensive look at human

With inanimate objects and interiors, everything is clear: you either notice, in which they are able to or not. And what to do with people who are constantly doing something and feel? About them to know certain facts is much more difficult. It is not enough to see, what you will put people to feel his mood or to understand the truthfulness of his words.

Listen carefully to everything you say people, while watching people. Most of you will help the knowledge of body language and gestures. There will also be useful to non-professional linguistic analysis: make sure that as people are building a phrase with a tone of say on what emphasize. Think about why they said so, and not otherwise? What prompted you about them intuition and the first impression - and how this relates to the logical conclusions that you came later?

Ask questions

Critical thinking - perfect a skill that will come in handy in life as in the handling of information in general, and in person "detective work." Hesitate to ask questions, analyze, look for connections. Always try to find out the cause of this or that act, of a subject. Why your boss's office is made in that design? Why familiar week went to the mint skirt, but now dressed up with a brand-new? What is that stain your friend on his sleeve, and how it might appear?

Search options that could lead to a particular event. Try to reconstruct the situation step by step, which gave you the observed fact.

In addition, an important aspect of critical thinking - the rejection of labels. If you interlocutor seemed at first not too smart, distracted or hurried, then do not take it into account as an indisputable fact. All the facts about the people transient and impermanent, so do not hang labels on even the most simple, you think of the characters. It can do a disservice and lead to wrong conclusions.

Abstract workout

The more you develop the brain, the faster and more successful it will process the data for the deductive method. So use all the available methods. Read, solve puzzles and collect puzzles, play educational games, engage in learning a foreign language. Explore the world of desktop and logic games in which you will at the same time improve the social skills and the analysis of other people. Even playing cards can increase your personal skills analysis and the ability to do deductive conclusions. Also, as the support measures could be helpful to memory training, since the more you have the amount of active memorization, the more facts you will be able to compare.

The best option - to allocate 30-40 minutes a day to exercise abstract and hour and a half for "training in the field." They are easy to combine with walks, meeting friends or working meetings, if it does not prevent you to perform basic work their business.