Yet our thought processes push us towards objects, not actions. Your brain has already hardened and you're not going to make fundamental changes in its organization. However, there are a few simple rules of thumb you can adopt that will help. First, always think in terms of the verbs. If you approach it this way, you'll more quickly put your finger on the weaknesses of the design.
Reality is as reality does.
Don't ask yourself what things are, ask what they do. A battleship that sits in port and never destroys other ships might as well have never been built. Galileo once observed that the entire universe could be seen inside a single glass of wine. But an action-oriented thinker would understand Galileo instantly, for inside the wine glass take place the processes of refraction, convection, turbulence, evaporation, and many of the other processes that take place in the larger universe. When you can look at a glass of wine and see the entire universe, then you are ready to truly understand interactivity.