hey practitioners in this video I'm
going to teach you how to think like dr.
house
the script was written by sharing for
homes so check them out in the end
screen or the description below
dr. house is an incredibly intelligent
medical diagnostician he knows almost
all of the diseases in modern science
the vast and extensive knowledge base
makes him incredibly skilled at what he
does he's able to diagnose patients
accurately using knowledge house is
constantly trying to learn new things as
they often reads books and studies to
help them become better at what he does
in addition to being an extraordinary
dr. house speaks fluent Mandarin is an
expert at playing the guitar and piano
and a skilled at getting into the minds
of his patients and coworkers
you can do the same as improving your
knowledge base will tremendously
strengthen the accuracy speed and
reliability of your conclusions
regardless of your chosen subject right
now as an example say you work with
computers you have an extensive
knowledge of how they work
if one happens to become faulty or
breakdown being more knowledgeable can
allow you to figure a way around the
problem far greater than anyone without
knowledge of computers whatsoever so
improving your knowledge base is key to
mastering your subject area whether that
be a broad scale or not the knowledge
will enable you to think more like dr.
house also reasoning backwards dr. house
is not like the average person as he has
the skill of reasoning backwards he uses
a very nuanced logic to diagnose
diseases as fast as possible reasoning
backwards is a very useful skill to
master because unlike normal reasoning
we have evidence and then you make a
conclusion based on it
reasoning backwards when you have the
end result and you must figure out what
caused it
dr. house observes the disease's
symptoms and uses deductive reasoning
and working backwards to figure out the
cause this is a difference between him
and the average person as he is able to
use this efficient and effective skill
here's an example of reasoning in
progress imagine you have 100 small
marbles in a bag and you have two bags
the marbles are all identical except for
one
what is a different color than the rest
and you have to place that marble in a
separate bag on its own
you cannot see the marbles but you have
someone with you to tell you if it's in
the bag now what would be the fastest
way to find the marble the reasoning
forward approach would be to take one
out a time and place it in the bag until
you eventually end up with the odd
marble
however the reasoning backward approach
would be to divide the hundred Marbles
into two piles and place them in each
bag you can then check if it's in the
bag and the person says it's not the bag
then you throw out all those marbles and
you separate the remaining bag in
twenty-fives repeat until you have two
or three marbles left if you follow this
approach will get the odd marble within
seven tries opposed to the hundred tries
if you follow the reasoning forward
approach this is the exact same type of
reasoning dr. house uses and is how he
is so much better at diagnosing people
as he does it in a structured and
organized way that is uncommon to most
people
you can learn the reasoning backward
approach and become a better
problem-solver just like dr. house to
understand this concept more i recommend
reading the book reasoning backwards by
Greg young there are also some good
videos on this on sharing forge channel
keeping an open mind keeping an open
mind is essential that dr. House's work
as he must always be open to the ideas
that he may have misdiagnosed he looks
over his diagnosis to find any possible
flaws with it and he does not ignore any
issues with his theories purely because
he thinks he is correct
basically he tries to get rid of all
cognitive biases and logical fallacies
as possible in order to think like him
you must learn to keep your mind open to
the possibility that you may be wrong
do not eliminate possible conclusions
because you think you already found the
right answer when scientists make a
theory they will always try to find
problems with it and you should do the
same always remain open to the idea that
you are wrong this will reduce the
chance of you missing the correct
conclusion when dr. House's case
misdiagnosed do not jump to conclusions
and always make sure your line of
reasoning does not ignore any
contradictory evidence speak your mind
one thing that I love about dr. House's
as Newton's personality he is so random
and spontaneous and he's always the
center of attention when he's in a room
is very comfortable on his feet and he's
not afraid to challenge anyone he makes
his points clear that's what you should
do you should be able to speak your mind
and reasoning confidence is key and will
play a major part in you being a better
reason or however do not be as
patronizing as dr. House's as that has
resulted in him being punched in the
face on several occasions your
confidence in your abilities is key to
being like dr. house in life you need to
be vocal in order to be heard and
listened to by others
you do not want what you say to fall on
deaf ears especially if it is something
important there was once a case where
dr. house was testing a group of
applicants to see who is qualified to be
honest diagnostic team he found cases
for the applicants to do so one case in
particular involved all the applicants
trying and failing to diagnose a
particular patient dr. house had a very
good theory as to what it was but he
didn't speak up because he was
determined to test his potential
employees
however none of houses applicants were
able to properly diagnose the patient
and ended up dying despite houses
knowing what was wrong
with him because house do not speak up
when they needed it the most
it ended up costing somebody their life
learn from your mistake the one thing
you must do to be a good reason for such
as dr. house is to learn from your
mistakes we all make mistakes but the
biggest mistake of them all is not
learning from them you only improve from
trial and error and it takes lots of
experience to be able to have dr.
House's level of skill if you make
observations about someone and you
discover you are wrong in your
conclusion do not ignore it
find out why you were wrong right down
the reason and learn to improve use
every failure as an opportunity to
better yourself I do not fear making
mistakes the only thing I fear is not
learning from if one makes a mistake but
does not correct themselves so that they
don't make the same mistake again in the
future they will always fail a mistake
does not have to be a hindrance but a
chance to learn in addition to being
able to prevent the same mistake from
happening
similar errors would have prevented the
future because you would already learned
from them from previous failure for
instance dr. house had a case in which
the symptoms of his patients match the
symptoms of the patients had failed to
cure many years ago instead of making
the same mistake again immediately
claimed that the disease was the same
and fought to prove that it was before
it was too late
in the end dr. house was able to cure
the patient because he learned from the
previous failures and built upon them
and in this video by saying a huge
shout-out to sharing for homes for
coming up with most of the information
for the script and a quote by john doing
failure is instructive the person who
really thinks learns quite as much from
his failures as his successes
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