Inner Sherlock (Useful Guides)

The Way with OCC

  First of all, you should try and remember OCC. This the order in which you as a deductionist should operate. 

Observation – Here you observe the place or person you are deducing. There are things to look for if you have the knowledge, some says you should observe everything, and sure, you should do that in a perfect world but you won't be able to use everything you observe so that will only waste your time when you get into higher ranks of deduction. And if you want to know what to observe than all you need to do is practice.

Conclusion – The second step is to come to a conclusion from what you have observed. This is the deduction, we will talk more about this later on in this text. This will require both logic and knowledge. If you lack in one of these then you'll need to train that.

Confirmation – Now this is something most deductionist don't do because they are scared of failing. If you don't confirm if you are right you'll hinder your own progress extremely. If you can confirm, always try to.