Here are some more tips on how to think clearly and master your profession that I learned from Sherlock Holmes.
1) Be Accurate: Strive to be accurate in perceiving facts and describing them. This is of immense importance and in itself will prevent many errors. It is extremely important to think clearly.
2) Strive for precision and accuracy in your speech: This is something I took from a book on public speaking. It is somewhat related to the first point. And if you want to be precise and exact in your speech, you must first be precise and exact in your thinking. I have had contact with a few lawyers in my life, both good and bad, and the lawyer who impressed me the most had that same quality of expressing himself with precision and accuracy.
3) Know yourself. Release your conditioning and overthinking habits. Be aware of your feelings and emotions and gain some measure of detachment from them. This is necessary to avoid making the same mistakes you have made so far. Learning to think clearly is actually quite simple. It is not easy but it is simple. It is getting to know yourself, mastering yourself, and stopping repeating old mistakes and old habits of thought and feeling that is difficult.
4) Expose yourself to some good influences, like Sherlock Holmes. Find yourself a role model that you like and who you would like to be like. And you have the Sherlock Holmes books in front of you. Read them repeatedly and expose yourself to a mastermind at work and play and in your everyday life.
5) Imitate. Once you have freed yourself a bit from your conditioning and have also been exposed to Sherlock Holmes repeatedly, it will be extremely easy for you to imitate his example. Trust me, this is the easy part. Anyone can imitate. And if you have drunk enough of Holmes, it will flow from you quite easily and naturally.
So this is what I have to say about the lesson that Sherlock Holmes has to teach us and what repeated reading of the Sherlock Holmes book can do for us.
I hope you enjoyed this article and found it useful. Put it into practice. Learning a new skill is never easy at first. But then it gets easier. And once you’ve mastered the skill, you’ll find that it has transformed your profession and your life.
