Mental Mobility

CMT, the thinking process I am in midst of designing, stands for Cognitive Mobility Training.  But what exactly is “cognitive mobility”?  There is a kind of mind that can move very fast across a single plane of information, like a record-breaking car on the Salt Lake flats. This is the kind of mind that excels at Jeopardy — a virtuoso data processor living in constant danger of being beaten by a large computer. CMT refers to something quite different.  The mobility that matters to functional intelligence is dimensional mobility. It exhibits swift and easy transitions, not across a plane of information, but between modes of thought. Mastery here isn’t a measure of how many things you can think of. It’s a measure of how many ways you can think about the same thing.