How to OBSERVE EVERYTHING Like Sherlock Holmes — Transcript

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1. 0:00One detail in this photo proves she
2. 0:02didn't jump. You've got 3 seconds.
3. 0:06Missed it. I'm about to give you five
4. 0:07principles I use to see what everyone
5. 0:10else misses. And I'll prove it by
6. 0:11solving this murder. Viewers, play along
7. 0:14and stay sharp. I've hidden three
8. 0:16stuffed animals throughout the video.
9. 0:17Comment where they are and I'll send one
10. 0:19lucky winner $100. And if I can solve
11. 0:22this case all by myself, all I ask is
12. 0:24you subscribe. Deal.
13. 0:29The following events are from a fake
14. 0:31murder mystery game. It is for
15. 0:33entertainment and education purposes
16. 0:35only. The events did not happen in real
17. 0:37life. Meet Jamie Banks, a high school
18. 0:40senior who, after a terrible performance
19. 0:42in the school play and suffering from
20. 0:44depression, decided to jump from the
21. 0:46school newspaper room to her death. Or
22. 0:48so they say. Because at the time of
23. 0:50death, most of the school was gathered
24. 0:52for a group photo, [music] except for a
25. 0:54few who are unaccounted for. So, you're
26. 0:57faced with all this evidence, endless
27. 0:59information and data. How do you find
28. 1:01what you need to tell the story? How do
29. 1:03you find a killer, catch your partner
30. 1:04cheating, or know which of your friends
31. 1:06are sneaking around together? Well,
32. 1:08before I tell you how to filter out the
33. 1:10useless stuff, you need to understand
34. 1:12the first principle. Everything has a
35. 1:14story. See, most people miss clues
36. 1:16because they don't ask why they're
37. 1:18there. Like, they think things appear
38. 1:20out of thin air with no explanation
39. 1:22attributed to it. But every element in a
40. 1:24scene has a story. A hole in the wall
41. 1:26was once punched by someone. The lock of
42. 1:28hair on your friend's top came from
43. 1:30someone. It didn't just spawn there.
44. 1:31Once you start looking for the
45. 1:33explanations and meanings behind
46. 1:35details, that's when you can draw
47. 1:37conclusions. Here's a drill. Walk into a
48. 1:39room and choose five [music] details.
49. 1:41Could be an object, a mark on the wall,
50. 1:43anything. For each, answer two simple
51. 1:46questions. What caused it? What does it
52. 1:48imply? Now, this is proper observation.
53. 1:51You're not just seeing a cup of lukewarm
54. 1:53tea on the table. You're now seeing that
55. 1:55someone was in there recently. For the
56. 1:57case of Jamie Banks, I'll look at the
57. 1:58crime scene photo first. Now, the
58. 2:01running story is that she [music]
59. 2:02jumped, but her shoe ended up off her
60. 2:05foot. I guess it's possible that she
61. 2:08could have hit the ground and the shoe
62. 2:09fell off. But when we look at the
63. 2:11security cameras, her shoe appeared 8
64. 2:15minutes after the body. Applying our
65. 2:17principle, what caused it? [music] Jaime
66. 2:19was pushed out the window. The per found
67. 2:21the shoe later and sent it down to tidy
68. 2:24[music] the scene. And what does it
69. 2:25imply? Jaime wasn't alone in that room.
70. 2:27Now, as it turns out, that's exactly the
71. 2:29proof this game is looking for because
72. 2:31it has a few prompts to steer you in the
73. 2:33direction of the solution. The first one
74. 2:35being, "Prove someone was in the room
75. 2:37with Jamie." [music]
76. 2:38Entering my proof into the online answer
77. 2:40key tells me I am obviously correct. And
78. 2:43I can open bonus envelope number one.
79. 2:48Oh, look. New pieces of evidence. For
80. 2:51our next objective, we need to catch a
81. 2:53suspect in a lie. So, sit tight because
82. 2:56there's no better way to use your
83. 2:57Sherlock level observation skills in
84. 2:59real life than to catch people out on
85. 3:01nasty lies. So, I've got you looking at
86. 3:04everything in a scene, predicting the
87. 3:05stories, reading the past. But, it's
88. 3:07time to start filtering out some of the
89. 3:09noise. Because the best way to catch
90. 3:11people in a lie is with my second
91. 3:12principle. Look for things that
92. 3:14shouldn't be there. Let me lead by
93. 3:16example. You come home and your partner
94. 3:17says they were home all day, [music] but
95. 3:19then you spot her coat on the back of a
96. 3:21chair and it's damp. That's an anomaly
97. 3:23and demands [music] investigation. Turns
98. 3:26out you've just caught her in a lie. You
99. 3:28see, it would be easy to brush the coat
100. 3:29off as normal as her belongings belong
101. 3:31in the house. But this is true
102. 3:33observation. For Jaime Banks's case, how
103. 3:36can we catch a liar? The prompt asks us
104. 3:38to uncover who was lying about their
105. 3:40whereabouts that day. So, based on the
106. 3:41suspects alibis, we need to find
107. 3:43something that should not be there.
108. 3:50>> [music]
109. 3:51>> Have a look at this. One of our
110. 3:52suspects, Dr. Gelding, the guy who runs
111. 3:55the school newspaper, declared in his
112. 3:57interrogation that he wasn't in the
113. 3:58newspaper room at all that day. Now, we
114. 4:00get two images of the newspaper [music]
115. 4:02room, the window and the door. The first
116. 4:04thing that stands out to me is this.
117. 4:06It's this article from the day of the
118. 4:08murder, which happened at like 10:00
119. 4:09a.m. But the more that I think about it,
120. 4:11the more that I realize that this is
121. 4:13literally the room that it's printed
122. 4:14[music] in, which means it's probably
123. 4:16printed the day before and stuck up
124. 4:18then. But what about this writing? If we
125. 4:20match this handwriting to witness
126. 4:22statements, we can clearly see it
127. 4:24belongs to Dr. Benjamin Geling, the
128. 4:26counselor, the guy who in his [music]
129. 4:28witness statement declared that Jaime
130. 4:30had bipolar tendencies and manic
131. 4:33depression. So, her accident didn't come
132. 4:35as a surprise. But it might not have
133. 4:37been a surprise for a different reason
134. 4:40because each of these lines appears to
135. 4:42be daily news. And this last one, Dakota
136. 4:45saved Samson, is [music] a story I
137. 4:47recognize from our new piece of
138. 4:48evidence. This is a news story from the
139. 4:51day that Jaime died. If Mr. Therapist
140. 4:53wasn't in the room at all that day, like
141. 4:54he said, then this definitely should not
142. 4:57be there. Erggo, Mr. Gelding is the
143. 4:59liar, liar, pants on fire.
144. 5:03Once again, we were correct on objective
145. 5:05number two. So, we can open our second
146. 5:07envelope. Now, before we move on, let me
147. 5:10address a very important issue. What
148. 5:12about red herrings? A red herring is
149. 5:15something that distracts you or even
150. 5:16prevents you from finding the truth. In
151. 5:19mystery games, they're put in
152. 5:20deliberately to make it more
153. 5:22challenging, but they exist in real
154. 5:23life, too. Take my example from earlier
155. 5:26with the lying partner. When you catch
156. 5:27your partner lying, I bet you jump to
157. 5:29conclusions and start panicking. Turns
158. 5:31out she just went to buy something for
159. 5:33your birthday and didn't want to ruin
160. 5:34the surprise. Because in real life, red
161. 5:36herrings make things seem one way when
162. 5:39there could be another logical
163. 5:40explanation that you've just overlooked
164. 5:42or missed. So to avoid these, it's
165. 5:45important you use Sherlock principle
166. 5:47number three. Think in probabilities. I
167. 5:49want you to change the way you think. No
168. 5:52more definite answers. In other words,
169. 5:54this happened, so this must have
170. 5:56happened. From now on, you create a list
171. 5:58of probable solutions. This helps you
172. 6:01find the truth without ruling out lesser
173. 6:03likely solutions just yet and also
174. 6:05prevents lesser likely truths to be
175. 6:07squashed by red herrings. For example,
176. 6:09here's a red herring in our case. Jaime
177. 6:11was found with a tiny bottle of poison.
178. 6:13So, could someone have poisoned her? Is
179. 6:16that why she fell out of the window?
180. 6:18Now, I could waste my time looking for
181. 6:20further proof of poisoning, or I could
182. 6:22keep that in my mind as a potential
183. 6:24solution while looking at all the other
184. 6:26evidence, whereby I'll discover that our
185. 6:28victim was the lead of a Romeo and
186. 6:31Juliet play in which she used a prop
187. 6:34bottle of poison. Now, the probability
188. 6:36of her being poisoned is reduced enough
189. 6:38to disregard that theory. Fun stuff. By
190. 6:40the way, have you found any of the
191. 6:42stuffed animals yet? I've shown two out
192. 6:44of three of them so far. Make sure to
193. 6:46comment their locations for a chance to
194. 6:47win $100. So, we have all the skills we
195. 6:50need to spot and expose the hidden
196. 6:52evidence that people [music] want to
197. 6:53stay buried. But there's a fourth
198. 6:55principle that is crucial to see the
199. 6:57overarching narrative. It sounds cliche,
200. 6:59but you need to see the bigger picture.
201. 7:02I have a few prompts to make this
202. 7:03easier. Ask why. What does the subject
203. 7:06get out of it? What are the
204. 7:07consequences? You might have all sorts
205. 7:09of evidence pointing at something, but
206. 7:11the more of these questions that you can
207. 7:13answer, which connects the dots of an
208. 7:14underlying narrative, the higher you
209. 7:16raise the probability of that solution
210. 7:18being correct. Let me show you what I
211. 7:20mean. So, Mr. Therapist here lied about
212. 7:23being in that room that day. So, he's
213. 7:24sus. Although, he's told us some useful
214. 7:27information. Jaime was involved in a
215. 7:29forbidden relationship, which he and a
216. 7:32few other sources try to attribute to
217. 7:34the young drama teacher. But Geling also
218. 7:37spoke about the mental health issues I
219. 7:39brought up earlier. And upon discovery
220. 7:41of his lie, it's almost as if he's
221. 7:43trying to cover his tracks. But why?
222. 7:45Looking at the bigger picture, what if
223. 7:47he was the forbidden relationship?
224. 7:49Developing feelings for your therapist
225. 7:51is not exactly uncommon, but as a
226. 7:53student, it's definitely illegal. And
227. 7:55Dr. Gilding is married, so if the
228. 7:57relationship was exposed, he'd lose his
229. 7:59job, license, and his family. and
230. 8:02evidence suggests that Jaime was
231. 8:04planning an expose in the school
232. 8:05newspaper. So, there's our motive, but
233. 8:08the game needs one last piece of
234. 8:09evidence placing him at the scene. Using
235. 8:12principle 2, I scouted once again for
236. 8:14things that don't belong until I came
237. 8:16across this document saying that clay
238. 8:17was found on her shoe. There's been no
239. 8:20mention of any reason she should have
240. 8:21clay on her shoe. So, this is definitely
241. 8:23an anomaly. Now, I can scout for other
242. 8:26mentions of clay or how it could have
243. 8:28ended up there. And my search takes me
244. 8:30here. The school principal said that Dr.
245. 8:32Geling visited the art studio right
246. 8:34before it happened. He would have got
247. 8:36some clay on himself, then transferred
248. 8:38it to Jaime upon their fight. This is
249. 8:41the final piece of evidence I need.
250. 8:43Let's put it in the answer key and see
251. 8:45if I got it. Bingo. Dr. Benjamin Geling
252. 8:48is guilty. Turns out I was spot on. They
253. 8:51had a relationship. She threatened
254. 8:52[music] to expose him and he panicked
255. 8:54and pushed her out of the window. Which
256. 8:56means if you aren't [music] already, you
257. 8:58owe me a subscribe. And did you get all
258. 8:59the plushies? Comment where they were
259. 9:01because if you did, I'm giving away
260. 9:03$100. You might have also noticed I
261. 9:05revealed only four principles because
262. 9:07the fifth and final Sherlock principle,
263. 9:09which I was actively using the whole
264. 9:11case, is his memory. Sherlock has a
265. 9:14powerful photographic memory. And having
266. 9:16[music] a strong memory is how I
267. 9:17actively recalled important details and
268. 9:19evidence I had seen earlier as I needed
269. 9:21them. If you want to see how I trained
270. 9:24and developed my memory to be close to
271. 9:25photographic, watch this video. And if
272. 9:28you want to learn the mind palace
273. 9:29technique that Sherlock himself uses,
274. 9:31watch this one.