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Sherlock Holmes · March 25, 2012 9:52 am

So if you wanted to be more like Sherlock...what kind of things would you need to learn, study, take up, do etc? I started making a list (so I can start working on some of them!) and came up with 16 items so far. Let's see if you can come up with the same ones I did and whether you can think of any more that might make the list...then we can all start studying!!

1. Be more observant of people and the world around you - Try to look at peoples' clothes, hands, shoes, faces etc and pick up little details.
2. Learn to play the violin - or if you already play, practice it a bit more!
3. Study chemistry - and maybe buy some equipment so you can start doing experiments ie. test tubes, bunsen burner

OK your turn...

Davina · March 25, 2012 10:23 am

4. Learn how to guess other people's passwords for their laptops.
5. Start to memorise all the streets in your home town, whether they are one-way, have traffic lights etc.
6. Practice memory techniques , like the Mind Palace

Another 3 to be getting on with.

kazza474 · March 25, 2012 11:00 am

7, Use 'safe' drugs to enhance your mental prowess. (Stock up on nicotine patches)
8. Do not eat while thinking, it wastes energy.
9. Do not sleep while solving puzzles. Plenty of time later for that.

tobeornot221b · March 25, 2012 11:00 am

9. Get yourself a live-in ordinary person who blogs about you.
10. Be yourself.
11. Learn how not to care about what people think about you.

Last edited by tobeornot221b (March 25, 2012 11:01 am)

Sherlock Holmes · March 25, 2012 12:49 pm

These are good - keep 'em coming!

12. Maintain high levels of physical fitness.
13. Learn the basics of law and courtroom procedures.
14. Study different types of tobacco ash.

Irene Adler · March 26, 2012 11:44 am

15. Keep body parts in your fridge and microwave.

Nobody thought of that?

jenosborn · March 26, 2012 9:01 pm

Get:
16. A fabulous central London apartment.
17. A good coat
18. A short friend

Davina · March 26, 2012 9:09 pm

Hee Hee! Good ones!
19. Study poisons
20. Study geology
21. Learn to drive-if you haven't already done so

Irene Adler · March 26, 2012 10:02 pm

Davina wrote:
21. Learn to drive-if you haven't already done so

In my case, I'd have to learn to drive by the wrong side of the road!!

22. Make your roomate's dates a living hell (poor Sarah, poor Jeanette...)

Davina · March 27, 2012 1:13 pm

You mean the correct side of the road! The left-hand side.

Irene Adler · March 27, 2012 2:00 pm

Davina wrote:
You mean the correct side of the road! The left-hand side.

It only depends on the side you're looking from
Off topic: I had a lot of trouble when I went to London because I really didn't know where to look when crossing the streets... my neck suffered a lot... I looked to the right, but then my instinct told me I still had to look to the left, but then I thought "I'm in England, I have to look to the right"... A nightmare

Davina · March 27, 2012 3:41 pm

It can be quite dangerous when you are driving or walking around a country when they drive on the other side of the road. Clearly this happens more to us Brits than to most other folks around the world! Off to Canada on Saturday so will have to get some practice in! Lol

Sherlock Holmes · March 27, 2012 5:51 pm

23. Learn hand to hand combat.
24. Get a Blackberry.
25. Learn how to break ciphers and codes.

Irene Adler · March 27, 2012 7:41 pm

This can be a difficult one:

26. Ignore sex.

Sherlock Holmes · March 28, 2012 4:48 am

I'm trying out the not sleeping or eating thing. Yesterday I survived off just caffeine. I was fine till the evening came then I started to feel completely wired and hyper and thinking of loads of crazy Sherlock theories. Didn't go to bed till 3am and now I'm awake again at 5am, probably because of all the caffeine. Starting to feel a little hungry now too. It's all been rather enjoyable though none the less.

tobeornot221b · March 28, 2012 4:59 am

I know exactly what you mean! So many times that I wake up in the middle of the night over a dream I had about a theory or a dialogue. Whenever I don't rember the exact words it would kind of torture me and prevent me from falling asleep again. But: rather enjoyable, as you said, SherlockHolmes!
And it's in fact so that I dream in English...

kazza474 · March 28, 2012 5:03 am

Two points here.
1. Sherlock only did the no sleeping thing when he was on a case; it was more to do with not breaking the conscious cycle, npt breaking a train of thought just to sleep. Without a mind bending puzzle, it wouldn't work.
2. people are all wired differently; what works for some doesn't work for others. Ordinary people need sleep to recharge the brain so don't apply 'Sherlock 101" during important times, like exams etc.

Wholocked · March 28, 2012 6:09 am

Er guys, Sherlock obsessions CAN become unhealthy. Please don't do things like fail to eat, sleep, or try wearing multiple nicotine patches, unless you particularly want to make yourself ill. It's fun to play a little "Sherlock" but let's keep it reasonable, eh?

Sherlock Holmes · March 28, 2012 7:34 am

Haha, I love you guys being concerned over me, that's sweet. I'm not doing it again today!

Sherlock Holmes · March 31, 2012 10:03 am

This is pretty hilarious

http://www.wikihow.com/Emulate-Sherlock-Holmes