Question:
How to analyze peope like Sherlock Holmes?
Aviad
2013-08-13 10:58:15 UTC
Hey, I just started to watch 'Sherlock', and I really like the way he's anaylze people, He doing it perfectly. I want to learn to analyze people/places etc like him.
I believe that there are some books that will help me with that, there must be /:
The Sherlock Holmes books will help me maybe? How hard it will be to read his books? And It's will help me?
Thanks assistants.
Seven answers:
Jay
2013-08-13 12:54:58 UTC
In addition to making logical deductions you might also want to learn to read people the way "psychics" do. There are many tricks and techniques that they use to trick people into thinking they are reading their mind. In the detective show Psych, that's what the character does to solve crimes. Sherlock in the show you mentioned does it as well. When combined with even the simplest deductions that you can learn* you could pass yourself off as having a powerful Sherlock Holmes ability.





*By learn, I mean that a lot of the real ability would have to come naturally and not something that you could actually learn.
Marli
2013-08-13 13:49:26 UTC
There are books about Body language. This is one. The Dewey Decimal call number is below. There might be others in your library.

Body language : the secret language of body gestures and postures that reveal what we really think and mean

by Boyes, Carolyn.

Year/Format: 2005, Book, 191 p. :

Subjects: Body language.

302.222 BOY



2949488

Mastermind : how to think like Sherlock Holmes

by Konnikova, Maria.

Year/Format: 2013, Book, x, 273 p. ;

Subjects: Doyle, Arthur Conan, 1859-1930--Characters--Sherlock Holmes.

Holmes, Sherlock (Fictitious character)--Knowledge--Logic.

Holmes, Sherlock (Fictitious character)--Knowledge--Reasoning.

Logic.

Reasoning.

153.4 KON



I think that the Sherlock Holmes stories themselves should give you insight. Note that Holmes observes facial features, hands, clothing, the ways they move, what they say and how they say it. He is always looking for details. What is out of place. What is there that should not be and what is missing that should be there. Note how he deduces Henry Baker's appearance and life from his hat in "The Blue Carbuncle" , Dr. Mortimer in the first chapter of "The Hound of the Baskervilles", "Jabez Wilson in "The Red-Headed League" and how he and Mycroft observe the man beneath their window in "The Greek Interpreter" Note also that Holmes built up an encyclopedic knowledge of crime, criminals, soils, tobacco ashes, newpaper type-fonts. The man had an insatiable curiousity and was studying when he wasn't taking cocaine because he was bored & sorry for himself or when he was investigating a crime.





I also think books on creative writing - about creating a character - would also be of use.
James T
2013-08-13 11:10:11 UTC
I am not sure that you really want to have Sherlock's powers of observation or his idactic memory, since it is not so subtly suggested, albeit highly unlikely, that his attention to detail and perfect mnemonic ability comes from undiagnosed Asperger's Syndrome.



I think you'd be better off honing your mental faculties with logic games or puzzles such as sudoku to enhance your problem solving skills and pattern recognition ability.
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2016-03-08 09:51:07 UTC
Very good lol. Happy Christmas Quizard hope its a good one x.
xK
2013-08-13 11:01:43 UTC
You'll want to take communication classes, particularly nonverbal.



The books themselves are pretty easy to read, I always thought, but they are dated and British, so you may have trouble.
anonymous
2016-09-17 18:47:46 UTC
I'm sorry I don't know about this
Silver
2013-08-13 11:27:12 UTC
Examples...





http://www.dreamspear.co.uk/michaels-favourites/how-to-think-like-sherlock-holmes/





http://lesswrong.com/lw/919/how_to_draw_conclusions_like_sherlock_holmes/





http://lifehacker.com/5960811/how-to-develop-sherlock-holmes+like-powers-of-observation-and-deduction





http://mmasood.wordpress.com/2007/09/09/sherlock-holmes-science-of-deduction-and-analysis/





http://www.mademan.com/how-to-think-like-sherlock-holmes/





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Books





http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=rkfqPZmIoTwC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Pdf+how+to+analyze+people+like+Sherlock+Holmes&hl=en&sa=X&ei=wHkKUo3cDeek4gSQrYHQDQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false





http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=3FQYSVXgwewC&pg=PA35&dq=how+to+analyze+people+like+Sherlock+Holmes&hl=en&sa=X&ei=EnoKUqa-K-Tc4QTa4YD4DA&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=how%20to%20analyze%20people%20like%20Sherlock%20Holmes&f=false





http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=H9UqotqDqr8C&dq=how+to+analyze+people+like+Sherlock+Holmes&hl=en&sa=X&ei=EnoKUqa-K-Tc4QTa4YD4DA&redir_esc=y


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