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Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes Book Summary & Insights

In Mastermind: How To Think Like Sherlock Holmes, Maria Konnikova teaches you how to apply the thinking methods and techniques of Sherlock Holmes to your everyday life. In a nutshell, Maria Konnikova puts twenty-first century neuroscience and psychology on your side. With some self-awareness and a little practice, you can sharpen our perceptions, solve difficult problems, and enhance your creative powers. By walking through the science of memory, creativity, and reasoning, and using Sherlock Holmes to bring the ideas to life, Maria Konnikova helps you master your own mind.

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How Do Great Scientists, Creative Thinkers, and Problem Solvers Solve Hard Problems?

In The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking, Edward B. Burger and Michael Starbird explain how smart people solve hard problems.

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How To Do Math in Your Head Faster

If you want to get better at math or do it faster in your head, so you can do better at work or do better in school, there's a way to do so. One of the things my Dad taught me early on was to do math in my head, whenever I could. He taught me to round things to 10s, 100's, 1000s, and to re-arrange the math and break it down if it was, too complex.

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The Power of Thought

As a Man Thinketh is a masterful work and timeless classic on ideas around the power of thought including: thought and character, effect of thought on circumstances, effect of thought on health and the body, thought and purpose, the thought factor in achievement, visions and ideals, and serenity. It's a lot of thoughts to *think* about.

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How To Define Intelligence in a Better Way

This post is less about the definition of intelligence or what is intelligence, and more about why have a different definition of intelligence in the first place. To put it simply, I think how we see intelligence and how we see ourselves can be limiting or enabling. And, I'm a fan of enabling and empowering you ... with skill. My dictionary says that intelligence is, "the ability to learn or understand or to deal with new or trying situations: Reason, also: the skilled use of reason ... and the ability to apply knowledge to manipulate one's environment or to think abstractly as measured by objective criteria." In my view, that's interesting but limited.

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