Hi!

New here. I wanted to share a project I have started, the Sherlockian Abduction Master List, aiming to collect in one place many observable details that allow Sherlock Holmes style inferences. My basic idea is that the reason no one has attained Holmes level insight is not so much a lack of sufficient fluid intelligence but a lack of lived experience. We just don't have time in our lives to try every career and vocation, and we can't be born into every culture - and the identifiable hints to a person's background are hard to discover without firsthand experience. I am trying to change that by crowdsourcing an exhaustive and tested list with images and sources.

If you are aware of something like this that already exists, please let me know! Certainly there are a lot of deduction blogs focused on memory reasoning etc. (such as mentat training plan) which is great, but I am trying to collect specific cues not general advice of that type. I've seen some such collections on this subreddit but not gathered in a central place.

Otherwise, please add your ideas by commenting below or at the link above. You can also join the sherlockian-abduction google group I am starting if you're interested in further discussion (or email me and I'll invite you: colewyeth at gmail dot com). Also, it would be great if you shared this with anyone you think might like it, from as diverse a set of backgrounds as possible - I want as much content as I can get!

Thanks!

p.s. This is cross-posted from which seems more focused on deducing things from photos, hopefully you aren't seeing it twice :)

What material, beginner or advanced, would you recommend?

So I was on post where people asked for recs on books to be better at deduction etc.

Some of the comments said "look at the sidebar" but I can't see it. did it got removed or changed since those comments or something?

I always thought it waq just on the right side of the screen..

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I was huge on mystery novels as a kid but always seemed to struggle with deductive reasoning myself. Fast forward to the present, I've been studying mindfulness and realizing how much I had improved my quality of life by doing so.

I've been going through a renaissance of my former interests so naturally deduction returned to my orbit of interests. I found out that a lot of practices I've used in mindfulness and meditation seem to align with a some reading I've done on increasing perceptive abilities and drawing more accurate conclusions. A lot of it has to do with putting down the ego and being willing to take in your surroundings without judgement (at least initially).

Super curious if anyone else has had luck improving their deductive skills with mindfulness. Would love to hear your thoughts!

And are there any that are dependent on how long she's been pregnant for?

Looking for ideas how to deduce it

I think I will post « deduction reports » here in the future :D

Sherlock Holmes is one of role models and I want to be as smart as him( I know it’s kind of hard). I passionate to become like him. I even bought how do think like Sherlock Holmes and so a lot of videos of how to be like Sherlock I didn’t get enough information(from the book I read it twice and I barely remember it) so I thought maybe Reddit has some answers so here I am.

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I deduce that the pink flower pot is not part of the display. It is sold in another part of the store, someone picked it up, thought again, and then dumped it in the first space they found.

I hope this is an ok place to ask this as it’s not necessarily specific to Sherlock but… Fictional characters such as Sherlock, Shawn Spencer (Psych), and Patrick Jane (The Mentalist) have inspired me to up my observation game. Of course these characters all have exaggerated observations and work in a field that benefits from such skill but I would love to hear anything you have to offer on anything related to this concept. I don’t ‘need’ to notice anything in particular so I was wondering what I ‘can’ notice in an everyday (non-detective) lifestyle. I am also curious what to deduct (or abduct/induct-not clear on the difference or what these characters do) based on these observations just for fun. Any fun games/exercises you do that strengthens your observation skills? What to observe? What to look for when observing? And what to conclude based on these observations?

Thanks!

1.How to tell if a beard is shaved by a normal razor or a classic razor blade or an electric razor ?(like Sherlock in Eps1 SS2) 2.What can the appearance of the forearm or a hand say? 3.What can the eye areas tell you?(i'm having a little confuse about this)

I knew a guy in college who was very good at analyzing people and putting that knowledge to use. He would get a person to talk about themselves and their beliefs and how they viewed themselves, and from that he could make accurate guesses about how they would act in different situations and he could get them to do certain things by approaching them in a certain way.

I would compare it to Sherlock Holmes deducing things about a person from their appearance and clothing, but with this guy it was mostly psychological or personality based. I don't think anyone else noticed him doing this, but I saw him do it a couple of times and realized it was very deliberate and well thought out, not just surface level. And it was not just about getting girls, although that was part of it. He was in engineering, not psych btw.

I got to know him well enough to ask about how he learned this and he said 'from a book', but he never gave me the title. I've found a bunch of books on Amazon on the subject of 'Dark Psychology' and they all look to be rehashing the same basic material, body language, mirroring, etc. Books about deduction focus more on the Holmes type of stuff. Can anyone suggest a book on this subject or have a guess as to the book he was referring to? Thanks!

I recall a famous quote : "People always see things but they never observe it"

I would like to know if people use any brain maps or reminders to ensure that they continue paying attention through the day whenever necessary. For example, it is often easy to get lax and forget about observation when you're thinking about something.

I would like to know if you could suggest some points or tricks to ensure that one does not fall prey to it and continue the observation.

This is, of course, the step before deduction, yet it is the one which many end up overlooking the most.

Thanks in advance!

Hi, I'm a covert narc and I hate myself. I'm studying psychology and trying to cure this NPD and other disorders.

I searched for 'How to" so I can find a subreddit where I can ask people if they know a reddit client that loads gifs and videos with highest quality. But then I found this sub and started wondering why you want to be like Sherlock? Or a hypervigilant child abuse victim who's into sado masochism and other weird stuff.

Hello, fellow sherlockians. I unsubscribed when the rush of "tell me what you see based on my phone" appeared. Today I remembered this existed, and I'd like to bring something to the subreddit.

Did you practice your deducting skills today? What did you notice? Was it a smell, an error in a movie, a fence that was not symmetrical? Tell us your discoveries of the day. Even in quarantine, things happen all the time. I made some mortar today, after a couple of weeks of not doing anything of the sort, and the sand I used was wet due to rain, so I ended up using way less water than I thought, but the mortar is drying perfectly fine (apparently, I'll double check tomorrow, but 99% sure that it's A-Ok.)

Have a good one and keep on paying atention!