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How To Think Like Sherlock (2012)

by Daniel Smith(Favorite Author)

2.82 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1843179539 (ISBN13: 9781843179535)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Michael O'Mara Books Limited

review 1: a very interesting book. a very good one. sharpens the mind like a really good whetstone. this book taught me loads of new things, with big-enough font and hardcover edition, making it easy-carry and easy-reading for anywhere travel.the problem is, to people who are not british, or who are not familiar with british slang or who never read a single sherlock novel beforehand, or not too familiar with anything sherlock, this book might be a little challenge.
review 2: This is an interesting subject matter and it really would be nice to think like the great detective. However, I am not sure that this book is the way to go about becoming like Sherlock Holmes. Let’s start with the first thing needs to be clear for all people with this lofty goal, even for people li... moreke me who just find the idea fascinating; Sherlock Holmes isn’t real! As great as it would be to have the mind of Sherlock Holmes and the abilities of the man as well, it is probably never going to happen for most people, if anyone; because quite frankly, human’s aren’t created like that. Books and movies have over the years romanticised certain abilities to the point where people strive to those goals without understanding them. The kind of mind that would have the computational power of Sherlock Holmes’ mind is not the kind of mind that you would find a healthy human being. When looking at most of the super geniuses of the world there is always a huge draw back to their cognitive brilliance and in most cases that is the lack of a comfortable level of sanity. Now that isn’t to say that there aren’t things to be learned from this book. There is plenty of information about improving memory, the mind and other areas of our life that all people can learn from. There is a brief overview of a number of techniques and ideas that are genuinely interesting and can improve your life tremendously. As a person currently trying to improve his reading speed and understanding the benefits of an improved reading speed I can testify that anyone can learn some of these skills and that they can be of a huge help to people. Before I ramble on too much about this book I would like to finish with a quick summary which I feel is most pertinent to this book. There is a lot of helpful starting points in this book and some useful information. But at the same time remember to take everything with a pinch of salt. The author writes about Sherlock Holmes as though he were actually a real person and is a man that everyone can be with the right amount of work. Limit your expectations and take from this book what you genuinely might be able to use which is a step in the right direction for developing a more useful mind. less

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