Think Like Sherlock

Evaluate the possible consequences of each solution.

Generate an array of alternative solutions.

to evaluate what you hear, what you read, and what you decide to do.

armed with information and you seek multiple perspectives and not let yourself be influenced by bias

of information is one of the worst detriments to your decisions.

Pulling knowledge and solutions from other fields—even seemingly unrelated ones—offers an entirely new world of possibilities to consider.

thinking of a problem as someone else’s rather than your own can help give you that break from the emotional involvement or cognitive pressure that blocks your ability to think objectively and creatively about the situation.

One way to create such distance is by imagining that you’re solving the problem for someone else rather than for yourself

baseline is what is considered normal or typical for a particular object of observation.

They were so focused on counting the number of basketball passes the white group made that they were blind to anything else that happened in the scene—a phenomenon known as inattentional blindness.