Sunday, December 11, 2005

Life is a lesson

Really, just signed up so I could post a comment on my mom's blog. Came up with this blog title a while back, but never really did anything with it.

So often, solutions to problems hinge on finding the right approach -- the right way to think about the problem. Or, rather, a right way. Each approach gives us certain insights, and opens up certain vistas.

Math, science, family, politics, medicine, society -- they all provide examples, and all are things I'm prone to ponder -- and perhaps pontificate upon.

The downside of the title, of course, is that one might think I'm going to tell you what to think, or at least what approach to use. Nope -- it's life that's the teacher -- and if I were the teacher, I'd expect you to be doing the thinking...