Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes

The New York Times bestselling guide to thinking like literature's greatest detective. "Steven Pinker meets Sir Arthur...
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Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes by Konnikova, Maria

Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes

$29.10

Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes

$29.10
Author: Maria Konnikova
Format: Paperback
Language: English
The New York Times bestselling guide to thinking like literature's greatest detective. "Steven Pinker meets Sir Arthur Conan Doyle" (Boston Globe), by the author of The Confidence Game.

No fictional character is more renowned for his powers of thought and observation than Sherlock Holmes. But is his extraordinary intellect merely a gift of fiction, or can we learn to cultivate these abilities ourselves, to improve our lives at work and at home?

We can, says psychologist and journalist Maria Konnikova, and in Mastermind she shows us how. Beginning with the "brain attic"--Holmes's metaphor for how we store information and organize knowledge--Konnikova unpacks the mental strategies that lead to clearer thinking and deeper insights. Drawing on twenty-first-century neuroscience and psychology, Mastermind explores Holmes's unique methods of ever-present mindfulness, astute observation, and logical deduction. In doing so, it shows how each of us, with some self-awareness and a little practice, can employ these same methods to sharpen our perceptions, solve difficult problems, and enhance our creative powers. For Holmes aficionados and casual readers alike, Konnikova reveals how the world's most keen-eyed detective can serve as an unparalleled guide to upgrading the mind.



Author: Maria Konnikova
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 12/31/2013
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.50w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780143124344
Audience: Young Adult

About the Author
Maria Konnikova is the author of Mastermind and The Confidence Game. She is a regular contributing writer for The New Yorker, and has written for the Atlantic, the New York Times, Slate, the New Republic, the Paris Review, the Wall Street Journal, Salon, the Boston Globe, the Scientific American MIND, WIRED, and Smithsonian. Maria graduated from Harvard University and received her Ph.D. in Psychology from Columbia University.

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