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Mastermind, sherlock holmes, mastermind sherlock holmes collection opensource language english. All content included on our site, such as text, images, digital downloads and other, is the property of its content suppliers and protected by us and international laws. As our thought process begins, the furniture of memory combines with the structure of internal habits and external circumstances to determine which item. By chuck leddy globe correspondent, january 7, 20, 12. Maria konnikova is the new york times bestselling author of the confidence game vikingpenguin 2016 and mastermind. Maria konnikova works in the psychology department at columbia university.
Maria konnikova was born in moscow and grew up in the united states. Advance praise for mastermind a delightful tour of the science of memory, creativity, and reasoning, illustrated with the help of historys most famous reasoner, sherlock holmes himself. These are the questions that journalist and psychologist maria konnikova tackles in her mesmerizing new book. How to think like sherlock holmes, released january 3, 20, is a book written by maria konnikova exploring ways to improve mindfulness, logical thinking and observation using arthur conan doyles fictional character sherlock holmes as an exemplar. Konnikova s strategy of contrasting holmes with watson leads to lengthy passages where one is asked to consider why dr watson is such an unthinking oaf, and why sherlock holmes is, well, whatever. Konnikova intertwines her analysis of holmess habits of mind with findings from the modernday fields of. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Description of the confidence game by maria konnikova pdf.
Sherlock holmes is a superhero, and his superpower is his ability to use his brain. The first example konnikova goes into at length is that of the great impostor as he was known in the book and movie versions of his life story fred demara. Mar 09, 2016 konnikovas basic argument developed through a mixture of anecdotes and behavioralscience findings, after the manner associated with journalist and author malcolm gladwell is that both the grifters manipulative skills and the victims susceptibility are matters of human neurobiology and everyday social psychology. She has worked as a television producer, written for several magazines and online publications, and authored two new york times best selling books. Maria is a contributing writer for the new yorker online, where she writes a weekly column with a focus on psychology and science, and is currently working on an assortment of nonfiction and. Maria konnikova is an author with a phd in psychology. The main characters of this non fiction, psychology story are. Jan 28, 20 it is simply a matter of bringing a little science to the art of thinkingand it is this very thing that konnikova aims to help us achieve in her new book mastermind. The first edition of the novel was published in 20, and was written by maria konnikova.
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