> At some point you have to ask yourself: If this "decomposition" hammer is the only tool we have to use in the world, it's no surprise that everything looks li

> At some point you have to ask yourself: If this "decomposition" hammer is the only tool we have to use in the world, it's no surprise that everything looks like a nail. Agreed! I think this is why it was not intuitive to me. I was (reasonably) good at math in school, but I never tried to decompose the problem. I always tried to get a feel of the problem by looking at it from various angles and get the crux of the problem. That's the best I can say about my thinking method then.