What Sherlock Holmes Can Teach Us About Decision Making - Maria Konnikova

[@dafunk666]

I applaud people who do talks to big audiences when you can tell they're quite nervous. It's a difficult thing to do and it shows courage.

[@Beccies]

I couldn't tell she was more nervous than the average person. She was pretty calm looking

[@mikepublic111]

I like her talks. She's calm and measured.

[@JMO777X]

I think she brings up a lot of interesting concepts and love how she uses a creative theme as the medium for her research. Good application of synergy between creativity and analytical conclusions.

[@pheonixnighthawk]

She isn't implying you can become like a fictional Holmes. She is explaining that it should be possible to actively adjust the way you think about and perceive the world. You have already showed an inflexibility in your thinking if you dismiss her analogy simply on the basis of it being a fictional example. This is an excellent presentation.

[@janovesakkestad7097]

Powerful stuff every time you recal a memory you change that memory. I love it.

[@LasVegasSand_s]

So crucial

[@WeThinkWereFree]

Lovely talk. I am a massive Holmes fan from early childhood to today. I can remember feeling a deep connection to these characters for exactly the reasons she elucidates. Doyle constructed a remarkably complete psychological landscape.

[@CC3GROUNDZERO]

Slavoj Zizek frequently mentions the "dog in the night time" story in his lectures. Now I understand his appreciation for Sherlock Holmes much better.

[@keysNclocks]

I fricken love this woman

[@misterholmes221]

Me too

[@michaelowens5394]

Thanks for this! Fun to hear all these quotes I grew up with integrated into a coherent presentation. Just one caveat: at 17:09, "game" doesn't mean "entertaining pastime", it means "wild animals hunted for food or sport." Holmes is not saying "It's time to play the game", he's saying "Our quarry is on the run." Otherwise, nicely done.

[@esseserve]

It's impressive the way she rarely stutter or stops while talking.

[@zadeh79]

Inventing viable explanations of things, is the stuff of genius. Intuition/default network is what we owe most of that to. Overconfidence can be wrong at times, but it's supposed to be - the point is the default network allows us to cycle through the different possibilities, until under analysis/evaluation, something is consistent. Intuition is wrong a lot, because that's the beauty of how it works.

[@odalesaylor]

Interesting. It seems as though we cannot be like Sherlock Holmes. But, remember, it is not impossible. So just maybe, we can!

[@elultimopujilense]

I can listen to this woman all day long... She is intelligent, she is pretty, she got an angels voice... she is perfect!

[@ipman3564]

Thank you Maria....Great speech!

[@GuitarHeroPhenomSux]

I've always been curious from childhood. Google is the most exhausted tool I use. I think alot of the memories I have are inadvertent though. I never actually "force" myself to remember anything, it just happens. I loved this video, and all the allusions she drew to Sherlock with science. He's always been one of my favorite fictional characters for his powers of deduction.

[@rajendrarajasingam6310]

Very realistic and practical.Fruitful lesson to learn !

[@Kirit3]

A girlfriend of mine (who is quite a beauty) once told me that whenever she makes a presentation about anything, the most common comment she gets it about her looks or how people weren't listening because she's too beautiful. Seems like some things never change haha. With that said once she talked about multitasking. I stopped what I was doing and really concentrated on her lecture instead. I hope I can develop a good habit.

[@jayjoshi64]

Each slide in the presentation had so many new learnings to offer. I was surprised about each fact she shared. I am a big fan of Sherlock Holmes and wanted to understand his thinking methods. This 1 video covered so many things. Thank you so much.!

[@SIMKINETICS]

I've been a scientist, and was an engineer for decades. Although I was predisposed from an early age towards science, actual scientific training left an indelible impression on my life that I'm certain had a very positive effect beyond a rewarding career. I thrive on knowledge, and pay attention to the real world (including my senses). Presence is my reward.

[@Dowlphin]

Nevetheless, she's right about a lot of stuff. Very good video.

[@maswinkels]

A Holmesian fallacy (also Sherlock Holmes fallacy or process of elimination fallacy) is a logical fallacy that occurs when some explanation is believed to be true on the basis that alternate explanations are impossible, yet not all alternate explanations have been ruled out. The fallacy is an appeal to omniscience and an informal fallacy.

[@martin34cool]

I find this to be quite interesting and a nice example, easy to visualize, easier to remember.

[@optmanii]

the innovation thinking is to see not just what is there, but what isn't there.

[@TheKibeer]

It was very nice presentation. She was a little nervous but it did not hold her back. Bravo. I think she would be surprised what Eckhart Tolle or rather Zen has to say about creativity and our mind, inner dialogue etc.

[@jessz4835]

fantastic presentation!! :D

[@Buho01extremist]

When i was a child i dident have my father in my home, and the thing that teach me how to look to the world was my books of sherlock holmes, when i feel down i just read some pages of any storys of him and open my mind to the what realy is in reality and what is inside my head. thx for this video :D Sorry for my bad english

[@SourcesAreEverything]

The transfer of encoded experiences from episodic memory to reflexive motor rehearsal is exactly the process I will be neuroimaging in an upcoming experiment on the musician brain. Personally, I'm enthralled to live in an era where empirical science can finally accept the challenge of understanding human creativity and subjective experience.

[@loxum]

that's easy - the 2nd one contains two conditions (linked by an and - so both has to be true)

[@dornelli1]

14:58 one of the most important things i´ve heard so far

[@sofiabuokay3822]

i feel like she's gonna start crying anytime...

[@Katyna780]

Years ago, while fresh in from college, I read Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. It got me fascinated. I wanted to be like him so I thought on observe the character, its traits and identify patterns of his thinking process; so ended up writing thinking patterns on cards, rules to be exercised on myself to become like Sherlock by habit out of exercising... ideas like: "be in the moment", "always expect the unexpected", "think of an extra possibility even with all seems to make sense" and so on...

[@der_photonist]

Do you have the cards? I'm curious here...

[@bobalbury4969]

I appreciate what you have shared. I found it interesting, profound, and useful. Thank you.

[@Dixavd]

That always stuck out to me. Great talk, thanks for reminding me of these skills.

[@brostepisthebest]

i like her

[@barnesconti]

What a great video. It is so much fun to relate our favorite fictional characters to our everyday lives. Kim Barnes will be speaking about Nancy Drew As An Internal Consultant at the Training 2013 Conference & Expo.

[@DoRayMeFa]

Excellent! Thought provoking. The first part of the video -- especially on the benefits of five minutes of quiet contemplation or a twenty minute walk -- reminded me of Susan Cain's "Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking". The second half of the video -- esp. the accountant story -- reminded me of Daniel Kahneman's "Thinking, Fast and Slow." Both are good reads, though Kahneman's is longer and a bit dry for the layman.

[@kokabversion2009]

I realize I'm jumping in the middle of other people's discussion, but I couldn't resist! Sorry... A fictional character is the product of mind, in this case we can go one step back to the creator of Sherlock. Doyle perfected the character to entertain but in reality he himself shows the observing logical mind that we all want. If you take the plots, story lines and of course the exaggerations out of Holmes you can still see the points this speech made. Its only more interesting this way.

[@trackerbuckmann1111]

Mastermind is by far one of the best books i have ever read. Hands down.

[@esseserve]

Basically what you are saying is that a person has a low probability of doing two things then to do just one. I think that doesn't follow since it's less possible to some one to do nothing, and it's also not likely to a person to do just one thing the entire time, I belive being an accounting and playing jazz for hobbie is much more likely to be true, since it's odd to be an accountant and only.

[@trick384]

she is arousing me in more than one way

[@Sammysapphira]

"Multitasking doesn't exist, you're just switching attention." Bullshit. I was paying attention to the game I was playing and listening/learning from this at the exact same time whilst talking to a friend.

[@Dowlphin]

'Today we do this, people do that' - that's conditioning the mind for problem-perception mode. Instead, she should merely adress suggestions for those people who do, not assume it's 'everywhere'. Furthermore: 'Multitasking is a misnomer - there is no multitasking - we merely switch quickly between tasks'. This is indicating overthinking and putting too much value into words and definitions. Nothing is perfect, but the term "multitasking" is not 'wrong' - it serves its purpose.

[@trackerbuckmann1111]

this book is amazing. i love it.

[@SaniSensei]

5:50 It's funny how she says the guy on the bike is not really multitasking, but switching rapidly back and forth between tasks... when the term multitasking actually derives from the technical term, that's used to describe operating systems that do exactly that: switch rapidly back and forth between tasks... (nowadays we have of course real concurrency with all the multi cores)

[@resal13]

So this is a good presentation!

[@timduncankobebryant]

This is an impressive talk.

[@Dixavd]

Overconfidence is the key to hold back. I read a story with a Holmes-like figure who constantly analysed. Then he met someone who in a fit of rage analysed someone to the point of using their statistical ideas as fact: "I know people like you, you wear shirts to get noticed-you betend to stop smoking just so you don't have to stand outside with your alone thoughts!" Then the main character turns and says "if you were really mindful, you'd see that statistics show nothing on an individual".

[@j9488]

Whats interesting is that a created fictional character is the subject of more study then his creator. It takes a true genius to create such a character as Sherlock Holmes. I want more study into the mind of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

[@glennrudzik1007]

Awesome vid Maria, I love how you used Sherlock in your presentation! It was awesome and very interesting not elementary! Lol, great job!

[@jideomololu6089]

Great analogy!

[@humanenergyfield]

Great presentation!

[@ben-lucky]

I think what she wore was fine. The content in her speech was by far intriguing enough that I didn't find her attire distracting. And she can wear whatever she wants..

[@vroomfondel4040]

I'm glad you understand me. Irony is what I was going for. Cheers!

[@asimic11]

great presentation, and interesting links

[@travisturner9930]

Interesting video!

[@ramjamflimflam]

That was excellent

[@kyraocity]

7:35 happy people see more of the world.

[@warriorfire8103]

I thought the same thing but I assume she's referring to sitting alone quietly, though not necessarily meditating just relaxing and letting your mind go.

[@TonySinyaev]

Great speech

[@contrastprinciple4389]

Thank you google for recommending this.

[@MissLoly112]

I was clapping at the end. Very intriguing, thank you. And you are very pretty :-)

[@UniversalPotentate]

This is really good stuff to keep in mind! ;)

[@RDF2552]

Yes and no. I'd wanna avoid judging people based on experience, on stereotypes, and generally also on appearance, but only to a certain degree - everybody who has something important to say should think of a way of presenting it, which makes it seem relevant, as well. She did not quite cross that line, in my opinion, and I have had similar thoughts with the Sherlock Holmes example in mind before.

[@kit93]

i'd like to see something on what holmes can teach us about interviewing techniques and assessment because he's super good at those too

[@tushnim_5996]

I'm pretty late but I've been looking up neurophysiology. so if you ask the person to narrate the alibi/story backwards, as they'll have to process a story and then play it backwards.

[@kit93]

but holmes always asks them to narrate the story forwards... probing with comments like "what happened next" and "prey continue..." but then again, since people are coming to him for help, he hardly needs to analyze their truthfulness...

[@gotama570]

I had made a decision... Give me a reward it was hard

[@VirpratapVS]

Well, I guess it makes more sense to refer to Holmes and Watson because they are different from each other. If she referred to Doyle and the characters that he created, it'd make her talk much more confusing...

[@mbgzster]

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[@sunilsai6271]

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[@shamyadav9878]

Great video

[@userasdf]

agreed. Wish she'd smile more. Sure she has a great smile :)

[@recalibration]

Did it matter that my first thought was to ask if the phone had an SD card slot? Fixed storage is such a limiation.

[@cyd9872]

She looks like Molly from BBC Sherlock

[@Dumass88]

i always ask why, havn't changed since i was a kid. i'm a mindful master?

[@drakezen]

It started with Hello..

[@esseserve]

5:18 ooh so cute

[@johnrongaming]

i love her voice... it helps me sleep... is that odd?

[@CaioPhox]

I've seen this on Big Think...

[@Atombender]

13:33 isn't that basically a variant of Occam's Razor?

[@Ohfishyfishyfish]

I'm playing football manager while she says all of this.

[@B26364]

Well done

[@MedievalDragoon]

I guess I'm ahead of the crowd, I do this stuff on a regular basis.

[@LeanAndMean44]

I don’t really know. I would guess the average person wouldn’t ever need this kind of thinking, and it has always annoyed me when people try to “understand you”, not in a respectful and empathetic manner, but in a way as if you were some kind of mathematical-logical equation or they were Sherlock Holmes. So please be critical of this method as well. I am sure I’m not the only one who doesn’t want to be seen as an equation, rather as a human being whom one should respect and whose personal choices one should accept and tolerate.

[@diemdinh73]

ONE QUESTION: How do you make the materials you are learning fun?

[@SilentDrex]

In my case, I prayed to God for exactly that! And guess what? here I am.... a couple of years back, I watched an average of 2 movies and lots of series' episodes daily. But now, after my prayer was answered, I am down to less than 1 movie per week. What am I doing with the time I gained? I am here on KZbin watching videos like this one, and Semantic Web 101. :-)

[@Ottomastiff]

Question for you all. I was thinking this line of thinking may fall into the logical fallacy of an appeal to ignorance? An appeal to ignorance is an argument for or against a proposition on the basis of a lack of evidence against or for it. If there is positive evidence for the conclusion, then of course we have other reasons for accepting it, but a lack of evidence by itself is no evidence. "Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.”

[@flyingdragons]

For some reason, I feel nervous listening to this talk.

[@heymelon]

Yes. I found it quite hilarious in contrast to your long an passionate comment about irrelevant things.

[@lah30303]

It's ridiculously obvious... What is your logic that makes you think the second option is more likely?

[@AbleNightRd02]

saw that too

[@rsdialymaker]

It's ironic that shes talking to about how multitasking isnt as beneficial and the dude at 09:47 its texting -.-...

[@magzz86]

thank u .. :)

[@elultimopujilense]

what did he said

[@janovesakkestad7097]

What?Why?How?

[@MacBeckett]

"The game's afoot," has nothing to do with games or playing. Games have no feet. Game has. The sentence means that the quarry, or prey, is moving about, and can be followed, heard, tracked, hunted and killed. Game as in game-bird. Not as in badminton bird.

[@Tina2aT]

I'm a fan of Sherlock and I like the videos that I've seen of Konnikova but felt that this lecture was weak.

[@joliecomo]

Disagree: I can multitask if the world depended on it. Agree with pretty much the rest.

[@moonshine1517]

this is useful

[@TheMasterfulcreator]

That's probably why he/she chose the adjective "interesting".

[@brostepisthebest]

nope,

[@dariushmatin6612]

عالی بود ممنون

[@roidroid]

It wouldn't effect the strength of your arguments, some (over*)sensitive people would be distracted though. (*subjective opinions, fun fun fun). Openness-to-experience is related to problem solving abilities and certain kinds of creativity. I'd think a LACK of negative reaction to short dresses, popped collars or chest hair would be associated with a greater psych test of Openess (and prob solv, creativity, etc, for good measure) of the audience members. A popped collar does not an idiot make.

[@hanchengwu6062]

How is her book? Any good?