How To Think Like Sherlock Quotes

“My mind is like a crowded box-room with packets of all sorts stowed away therein – so many that I may well have but a vague perception of what was there.’ ‘THE ADVENTURE OF THE LION’S MANE”
― Daniel Smith, How to Think Like Sherlock: Improve Your Powers of Observation, Memory and Deduction

“Do not become fixated on a single particular theory. Entertain all the possibilities.”
― Daniel Smith, How to Think Like Sherlock: Improve Your Powers of Observation, Memory and Deduction

“team of researchers in 2010 found that making judgements is best achieved when your blood sugar levels are at their optimum level.”
― Daniel Smith, How to Think Like Sherlock: Improve Your Powers of Observation, Memory and Deduction

“By being selective in what you note down, you are engaging with the material and have already started the sifting process.”
― Daniel Smith, How to Think Like Sherlock: Improve Your Powers of Observation, Memory and Deduction

“you might be one of those people whose optimum thinking is done in the shower or while going for a run.”
― Daniel Smith, How to Think Like Sherlock: Improve Your Powers of Observation, Memory and Deduction

“Even when he was ‘being nice’, his compliments could be distinctly double-edged.”
― Daniel Smith, How to Think Like Sherlock: Improve Your Powers of Observation, Memory and Deduction

“The trick to speed reading is not merely to see more words in a shorter space of time, but to become more efficient at reading. It is all well and good to scan your eyes over, say, 500 words per minute, but not much use if the meaning of those words does not sink in at such a pace.”
― Daniel Smith, How to Think Like Sherlock: Improve Your Powers of Observation, Memory and Deduction

“But rather than restricting his reading, it is far more likely that Holmes was an accomplished exponent of speed reading, able to digest large amounts of text at a high tempo and extract the information he required.”
― Daniel Smith, How to Think Like Sherlock: Improve Your Powers of Observation, Memory and Deduction

“For the majority of us, when we converse we are more interested in being heard than hearing. But by being this way, we risk missing out on learning lots of new information that might prove very valuable to us.”
― Daniel Smith, How to Think Like Sherlock: Improve Your Powers of Observation, Memory and Deduction

“The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.”
― Daniel Smith, How to Think Like Sherlock: Improve Your Powers of Observation, Memory and Deduction

“Intuition is perception as derived from the subconscious while feeling is the result of subjective and empathetic estimation.”
― Daniel Smith, How to Think Like Sherlock: Improve Your Powers of Observation, Memory and Deduction

“Holmes displayed classic signs of depression and resorted to such unsavoury outlets for his energies as cocaine abuse.”
― Daniel Smith, How to Think Like Sherlock: Improve Your Powers of Observation, Memory and Deduction

“A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.”
― Daniel Smith, How to Think Like Sherlock: Improve Your Powers of Observation, Memory and Deduction