Wow the last video I did was for hitting a thousand subscribers and we're already
at 2,000 that's insane also the t-shirts are still available if
you're interested in buying one link is in the description and if you're
interested in a fun little way to test your abilities in commemoration of 2000
subscribers be sure to watch this video to the end
first on our list is the man
who inspired the legend dr. Joseph Bell himself an absolutely brilliant man with
an acute attention to detail he was a surgeon and famous lecturer of the time
he was a man who provided the inspiration for Conan Doyle to create
the character of Sherlock Holmes like Holmes he was able to deduce things
about a person such as their occupation by looking at their hands where sailors
had traveled to buy their tattoos if a person had been drinking by looking at
their face and so on all this information and more he gathered to aid
him in making a diagnosis Conan Doyle himself described Bell as
"extraordinarily quick at deductive work he would look at a patient hardly
allow the patient to open his mouth but he would make his diagnosis of the
disease and also very often of the patient's nationality and occupation and
other points entirely by his power of observation" after being revealed as the
real Sherlock Holmes he would occasionally be asked by the police to
help solve a crime he even worked on the infamous case of Jack the Ripper it is
said that he worked the case and put his conclusions into writing and placed it
within an envelope however what happened to that letter is perhaps just as great
a mystery as what might have been inside of it
a man whose work has personally inspired me and whose book of the monographs has
been one of the greatest resources I've gotten ahold of thus far in my training of
my deductive abilities Ben Cardall is a famous Mentalist who astonishes people
all over the world with just how much he is able to figure out about people from
the slightest of details what is most interesting about him to me and
something that I've taken inspiration from in my training is that he is always
testing the limits and pushing the boundaries of what is possible with this
skillset always sitting up games and challenges for himself combining his
mental abilities with physical feats as well as training all areas of his brain
from observation to memory and of course deduction the levels he has taken some
of these things is quite amazing to see if you want to see what I'm talking
about a link to his YouTube channels in the description down below
you might have heard a famous illusionist Derren Brown before from his numerous TV shows
or perhaps his name sounds familiar to you but you can't quite place it in that
case you probably have a memory stored somewhere in your mind of his very brief
appearance on Sherlock in series 3 episode 1 in the theory that Anderson
shares with Lestrade he's the man who hypnotizes Watson to go back to the
ground after he gets up from being hit by the bicycle while Derren uses much more
than just deduction in this work such as the power of suggestion manipulation and
quote unquote mind control however he can also determine things about people
and seconds just like Sherlock Holmes again if you would like to see more of
what he does link to his channel is also in the description
ha no no not quite unfortunately
Dubbed "the real Sherlock Holmes" Cloud is known as a forensic mind reader unlike others on this list to
approach deduction in the conscious structured method of drawing conclusions
from observations cloud claims that he merely puts conscious effort into
observation and lets his subconscious do the rest this extraordinary intuition is
likely the result of the fact that for the last 17 years he has just been
studying people and with such a high attention to detail has been able to
figure out these various things however it should be noted that he can explain
the process of deduction when asked about it however this is much like
Sherlock Holmes himself who when Watson meets him is so well-versed in deduction
that he comes up with his conclusions without thinking much of it but as
Watson comes into the picture having to explain his conclusions
brought him back to a more conscious process before our last entry on this
list here are a couple of honorable mentions Walter Paget the brother of
Sidney Paget the original illustrator of the Sherlock Holmes stories Sidney used
his brother as a model for his depiction of Sherlock Holmes thus making the face
of Walter Paget the face of Sherlock Holmes
dr. Paul Ekman the pioneer of the
science of facial expression and nonverbal communication reading Ekman
was the inspiration and scientific consultant for the show lie to me while
not exactly a real-life Sherlock Holmes the ability to tell if a person is lying or not is
an aspect of Holmes and I kind of felt bad leaving this man off the list
and number 5 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle himself observing Bell as much as he
did and writing his many Sherlock Holmes stories as he did is it really
surprising that he developed considerable deductive powers of his own
being a medical man and man of science he was disappointed with the portrayal
of detectives in literature at the time and found that either the detective came
to his conclusion by mere chance or it was just never explained he operated
under the premise that if detective work was approached in a scientific way
with a structured scientific method of putting the clues together that
detectives will be far more effective and of course after seeing Bell he found
exactly what he was looking for like Sherlock Holmes and dr. Bell
Doyle was also consulted on cases from time to time and also worked on the
Ripper case he also put his conclusions into a letter just like Bell
in fact allegedly they agreed to work on the case separately from the outset and
when they reached their conclusions to give each other their letters and if
they came to the same conclusion then they would be reasonably assured that the
conclusion was correct however just like Bell's letter it is unknown what
happened to his and that was the top five real-life Sherlock Holmes's what
has intrigued me about this character for so long is that despite just how
larger-than-life his abilities might seem it is still at its core simplicity
itself however what has intrigued me just as
much is just how many people in conan doyle's day believed that holmes was a
real person the fact that a character so larger-than-life is believed by so many
people to be real truly speaks to Doyle's ability to write fleshed out and
believable characters but I'm curious which entry on this list you think is
the most like Sherlock Holmes and is there any person that wasn't mentioned
that you think should be on this list if you like this type of video let me know by
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you subscribe you might end up on such a list as this someday yourself and if you
stayed this long into the video well thank you first of all that just wonders
for my retention time and second I've been noticing a trend some of you
posting your deductions about me in the comments of my videos while I have
answered some of them in replies I thought it would only be fun if I
challenge you all to make deductions about me and then respond to them in a
future video if you're interested in doing that
leave your deductions in the comments below and of course thank you all so
much for watching I hope you joy and as always arrivederci