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- loup-vaillant 14y agoYet, I don't think this is what's happening here. Well it is happening, but only to get attention. The actual advice seems based on sound science. Like: mindfulness is good (meditation sure is), multitasking is bad (we can't do it anyway), and some mnemonic techniques work better than others (music, writing) —don't know of any study on that one, though there probably are. While we're at it, we don't want to imitate Holmes on everything. The guy was a cocaine user, for one.