I often envision Sherlock pouring over notes and experiments with feverish energy. His brows knitted and his hands smeared with...

Locks offer the ultimate promise of security. We rely on them to keep what is ours safe while keeping unwanted visitors out. Initially...

The key difference between us and Holmes is his job is to read situations and people. He stores his energy for those moments that matter.

Holmes displays a pretty remarkable affinity for linking tangible evidence with behavior. This isn't as easy a task as we would like. In day

I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little attic, and you to stock it with such furniture as you choose.

The talent for deduction starts with what you can observe. Now I use the term observation instead of see, because seeing things is sort of p

When building premises this way, try to keep the sets as small as possible.

Having clarity of thought can be challenging. Why? Many of us recieve what seems to be countless sensory inputs.

Here's the thing, if you aren't focusing on the person and the things they are saying, how they are saying it, and the body language they ar

Sometimes when you have large amounts of data, you need to break it up into digestible chunks to manage it better. This often requires you t

I am sitting with one of my friends at a coffee shop in San Antonio. The staff are easy going and the coffee is roasted on site. It's one...

The obstacles to making good deductions, often involves the ability to capture and store what we see. If we want to think like Sherlock Holm

When I read this expression I thought, “wow what a tidy way to describe how most of us act”. It is far to easy to allow knee jerk...

Listening requires more energy and focus than just hearing.

In The Adventure of Silver Blaze, Sherlock is on the search for a famous racehorse. He uses context and a timeline to establish the possibil

Here is the challenge: on Wednesday’s I will post a picture. Make a deduction based on the picture. There will be a link to an exercise...

Our ability to extract information from our day to day life is a very powerful tool. But it takes time and effort to do so. In order to make

We tend to be less than observant in our day to day lives. One of the ways we can improve this ability is to default things to untrue.

I am sitting in a coffee shop. I won’t say which one, but I will say that it rhythms with the words “car” and “trucks”. At the table where I