The way humans think of ideas are complex, intuitive, and can’t always be explained. Computational thinking is the mindset of solving problems from the ground up: 

Decomposing a problem into its smallest individual parts, 

Recognizing the common patterns in those pieces, 

Abstracting your ultimate goal so that it relates to those pieces, then 

Creating an algorithm that puts the pieces into a reliable and reusable approach for solving that problem.