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Rationally Speaking #117 - Maria Konnikova on How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes

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The Difference Between System One and System Two?

We're thinking like Holmes or something like Watson. So I'm wondering if there's an interesting disagreement that we might have about the respective value of system one and system two. Oh absolutely. Yeah. One of the big you know drawbacks to that slow home-sian thinking is it's much more effortful and it uses up a lot of cognitive resources. For Sherlock Holmes he's actually made because he's been in kind of system two system homes thinking when it comes to human interaction and person perception he's made that into system one so he's an expert in reading people.

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