#deductive reasoning

This was the first request I've got. I hope I can deliver something practical for your purposes.

I will make sure you get posts about specific topics about that in the future but this post will be a guide for you to go deep on that by yourself.

1-Read A lot

It is an easy answer to give, I know. But really, if you want to learn about others, read about them. Read both practical and theoretical books, watch videos about them. When it comes to psychology, there is no such thing as the best book or the best theory. You are the person who is going to interpret what you see, hear or observe so if you read something, you are going to find ways to implement it and get results. I would recommend(just a suggestion, do whatever you want)start with child development. You can observe it both in adults and children in your daily life. Read developmental psychology from Eric Ericson, Piaget, Vygotsky, Bowlby etc. You won't be able to finish all of them for years so no need to list them all.

If you know how human beings develop in early childhood, you will be able to observe the cause and effect. I know, human beings don't function like math but still, there are observable cause and effect relationships.

2-Spend Time with People

Common sense, right? If you want to learn more, just be around them. Watch how they react to certain stimuli. Watch how they choose to interact with the environment or with other people. We should also interact with them and ask questions to see if we are right about our theories about them.

Important point to be aware of: Most of the time, people can't explain why they behaved the way they did. They mostly find surface explanations so even though you might not be able to get the real answer, you know how they interpret that. Absence of evidence isn't an absence.

3-Know Thyself

How much could we know about others if we don't know ourselves? Look at your daily life. Why do you dress the way you do? The answer "Because I think it looks cool" doesn't count. No surface explanation. Learn about yourself. Observe yourself while eating, drinking, thinking about something, reacting(especially this one. It is really important.)etc.

If you understand how your brain works, you will understand other people easier.

Hello, finally time for new posts. I asked myself, "What should I post right now?" and "Which topic would be more useful to people if they think it is worth reading and spend a couple of minutes?" Then I realized, people who will read it(which is you, btw)could tell me what they want to learn.

So, please send me a dm or comment here. What topic would you like to see covered next? It could be related to observation, deduction, philosophy, psychology and even life, really. Just let me know and I will deliver something worth your time.

So, as you might have deduced(or just looked at the date of the last post...)I've been away for a while. It was kinda on purpose. I've been building some mini-courses(when I say mini, I mean the length, not the content :)) around the techniques of Sherlock Holmes. Some topics are: Memory, Observation, Attention/Focus, Habits for Practice, Real-Life Applications, Mindset, Deduction, Deduction Examples and so on....

What is my purpose?

There aren't many structured sessions or lectures on Sherlock Holmes's skills, and when I first started, I couldn't wrap my head around them. I had to do my own research, practice and try to... I don't know, get better? My head was full of questions like: "How can I improve my observation skills?" "How do I know that will work and it won't be a waste of time?" etc. Thanks to all these hours I've put in, now I have the answers. That's why I want to share them with people.

You are not going to take these courses and see the world as you used to see it. You are going to observe it differently, you are going to see more, remember more and most importantly: You are going to interact with the world in a completely different way. As a different person.

As Sherlock Holmes in Elementary said:

"A good detective knows that every task, every interaction, no matter how seemingly banal, has the potential to contain multitudes. I live my life alert to this possibility."

If you are interested in any of the skills I mentioned above and you don't know what to do or you don't have a structure, what I've built is exactly what you need. Just contact me. Message me. Do something!!!

THE GAME IS AFOOT/ON!

A GEM IN HISTORY

GEM Gertrude Elizabeth Margret born in 1919 in Limerick, Ireland attended Oxford graduated with first-class honors in Classics and Philosophy in 1941, and then made a decision that would define her career: she packed up and moved to Cambridge specifically to attend the lectures of Ludwig Wittgenstein, one of the greatest philosophers of the 20th century. Wittgenstein didn't let just anyone into his lectures. He made an exception for Anscombe. By the time he died in 1951, he trusted her so completely that he named her one of only three literary executors of his entire estate. Her 1953 English translation of his Philosophical Investigations remains the standard version used in classrooms and universities to this day.

That book (Intention) built an entirely new philosophical framework for understanding what it means to do something on purpose. Before Anscombe, philosophy had no precise way to distinguish between intending an action and merely foreseeing that it would happen. She changed that. Her work became the foundation of modern action theory, influencing everything from criminal law to medical ethics to debates about AI and autonomous weapons.