Wow I wasn't expecting such a good reception to the live stream the other
night and I certainly wasn't planning on having that much fun either
definitely that is something I'm going to consider making a regular thing to
the channel but guys next time less personal
questions and more questions about deduction sound fair? man it's like
someone twisting that's my shoulder really really slowly anyway moving on
the results came in from the poll for the last video you'll be delighted to
hear and it is clear that knowledge base is definitely what you guys are lacking
in so rest assured despite this being another observational video this is
merely a video following up my last one and I've got some videos lined up for
the future and a secret project that I'm not going to go into now that I'm
working on that will help you build up your knowledge base with that being said
let's jump into two observational training exercises that will help
retrain your brain and not only be always on the lookout but improve your
memory recall of what you have observed
so pop quiz I have two questions why do you think that stubbing your toe and
running into a wall could ever help your observational abilities and two is there
any possibility that Sherrinford won't turn this footage of me illustrating what
I just said into a humiliating remix to the second question I can only say well
we'll just have to see but to the first I can definitely say yes okay so the
first training exercise I call the leap of faith now I don't recommend actually
leaping but I'm sure you get the idea if you feel rather classy and have an
affinity for solving crimes and that aspect of deduction you can call it the
walk of justice in reference to Lady Justice who is well blindfolded
yeah that reference a little bit of a stretch I know but it's okay let's move
on basically it is as simple and difficult
as it looks it involves finding an environment with various obstacles or
rearranging an environment to have obstacles looking at it for as long as
you need and then blindfolding yourself to walk around and try not to hit
anything you can use anything really to blindfold yourself like a shirt or
something I just take a beanie and pull it over my eyes now despite what it
might seem like at first glance I'm not training you all to be an army of
Daredevils with radar hearing and whatnot we aren't trying to redirect the
sensory input from the ears to the visual cortex here now see what we're
trying to do is rely on our memory obviously you will have had to observe your
environment to know where all the obstacles are but you have to have a
good memory to know where all those obstacles are once the blindfold is on teaching
you both observation and memory recall with the added benefit of shall we say
negative reinforcement every time you stub your toe and walk into a wall
you're telling your brain oh snap there are painful consequences for not being
observant and retaining those observations which helps the brain to learn the skill
faster because the less pain the better as you get better you can start to
increase the difficulty by adding things in the environment that you have to
interact with maybe now on top of recording the dinner table now you have
to pull out one of the chairs and sit down and then get to smaller things that
you have to manage like moving a cup of water from one place to another in your
environment and eventually you can get something as ambitious as rearrange a
cluttered desk blindfolded simple enough right? now the next exercise is similar
in the sense of the trains both observation and memory recall I will
admit that this is one that I've only just started implementing but it is
based on the same principles as other techniques that I know of that work this
one is a blind drawing game now if you're not artistically inclined or
talented in any way shape or form that's okay there is an alternative form of
this exercise just for you just so long as you can wright now take an environment
a room a table a desk probably best to start with something small like a desk
rather than jumping into a whole room but essentially I bet you can already
guess what this is going what you're going to do is observe the environment
for as long as you need scan it up and down and really sear that image into
your brain as much as possible then look away and if you have to go to another
room if you're tempted to cheat and solely from memory draw everything that
you can remember if you can't draw simply write down every object that you
can remember as much a description of it as possible as well as placement then
compare the picture you drew or the description you wrote the actual
environment I'm pretty sure it will be quite disconcerting for many of you at first
it was for me and I'm just starting to try it out because we think we remember
things and what they look like until we actually put that to the test remember
it is one thing to observe it's another thing to remember what we observed and
of course for all of you who want to increase the difficulty of either of
these techniques you can always impose a time limit for observing over time these
techniques will train you to quickly scan your environment and remember what
you observed with vivid detail so since I really liked the polling feature that
I use the last time I'm going to do that again this time I want to know what you
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