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It is important to both see and to observe. As Holmes told Dr Watson: “You see, but you do not observe,”
This mental alertness, or mindfulness, is cultivated with deliberate practise. Mindfulness allows Holmes to observe those details that most of us don’t even realize we don’t see.
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It is important to both see and to observe. As Holmes tells Dr Watson: “You see, but you do not observe.”
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