Words for the Day: Saturday, October 16, 2010

The two Words for Today (Saturday) are Overview and Perspective.

These both tie in with our weekly theme (Discovery), Overview before, as a part of Discovery, and Perspective after the fact, as gaining perspective on a newly-learned topic is often important, to limit a phenomenon called "Jumping to Conclusions", which can cause conversational difficulties, if attempting to describe the topic with others, who are already learned about the topic. (In my personal life, it has gotten bad enough, where the other person is worried about which medications I am taking).

Please note another word for Overview: the Executive Summary.