Fundamentals

I couldn't resist beginning this blog with a little wordplay!

The "mental" in "fundamentals" has no etymological connection with the "mental" of mind, but there is a connection in my brain and, perhaps, in yours too.

The posts in this blog will explore how people think, both in general and in particular cases. I have long been fascinated by the topic of thinking, and by how little attention people in general pay to it. But the immediate provocation for (and proximate cause of) this blog is a post on Dr Luke Houghton's Problem Solving blog. Credit where credit's due...

Now the aforementioned post was on the topic of "Lateral Thinking". It would be premature to start talking about that topic on this blog, save to note that it is a style of thinking and therefore on-topic.

Well...I'm determined to keep it snappy, so I'd better say something fundamental about thinking! Thinking is a process and a thought is a snapshot of that process. Think about that for a while. We'll explore this idea further in a later post.