Soft thinking tries to find similarities and connections among things, while hard thinking focuses on their differences. For example, a soft thinker might say that a cat and a refrigerator have a lot in common, and then proceed to point out their similarities (“they both have a place to put fish”; “they both have tails”; “they both come in a variety of colors”; etc.). The hard thinker would establish the cat and the refrigerator as being members of two different sets.