abstract:
How many times did poor Dr. Watson hear these words from a triumphant Sherlock
Holmes when he had solved a case?
Have you ever felt like Dr. Watson while listening to lectures or in the
company of some fellow students? Have you ever struggled with all the
information (=clues) in your textbook trying to make sense of it (=finding the
killer)?
Do you doubt that you could ever really think like Sherlock Holmes - even if
you put your mind to it? Well, cognitive psychologist Maria Konnikova thinks
that we can. How? Show up, listen, discuss - and reflect - and you might learn
how.
Arthur Conan Doyle was the first to model a fictional person who consistently
practised the science of deduction. As he wrote to his mentor Dr. Joseph Bell:
"Round the deduction and inference and observation which I have heard you
inculcate, I have tried to build up a man who pushed the thing as far as it
would go"
We will also look at other interesting facts about learning and what you
could/should do to be able to learn more in less time.
