Walking the fine line between ingenious simplicity and just simplicity:
I’m particularly impressed that it takes four steps before you get to look in the place the thing is supposed to be. I must admit to being slightly disappointed: I was hoping for a Derren Brown-like self-reading.
In it’s absence, here are Dr Jon’s failsafe rules for finding things:
* If you’re right-handed, start by looking at places on your left (and vice versa): you’re probably subconsciously biased to looking to the same side as your handedness
* Don’t look at your eye level (which is the instinctive thing to do), look at yourhand level: depending on the surfaces available, this could be anywhere from hip to head height
* Get a large portable mirror and look at the area you’re searching in it. Failing this, lie down on a sofa/table/bed, hang your head down and look at the room upside down
* Move everything, paying attention to what you’re moving. If you’ve moved everything, you have, by definition, moved the thing you’re looking for
* Ask someone else to look for it: not because they’ll look at it with ‘fresh eyes’ but because they probably borrowed it and need an excuse to suddenly ‘find’ it without you getting angry with them
* Don’t look at your eye level (which is the instinctive thing to do), look at yourhand level: depending on the surfaces available, this could be anywhere from hip to head height
* Get a large portable mirror and look at the area you’re searching in it. Failing this, lie down on a sofa/table/bed, hang your head down and look at the room upside down
* Move everything, paying attention to what you’re moving. If you’ve moved everything, you have, by definition, moved the thing you’re looking for
* Ask someone else to look for it: not because they’ll look at it with ‘fresh eyes’ but because they probably borrowed it and need an excuse to suddenly ‘find’ it without you getting angry with them
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