As a fellow journalist and word person, I found your story really intriguing. Like you, I had always thought that math wasn't my thing, even though near the end of college I did a series of tests on my skills and found that I was best at math. Still the idea persisted.
It's important for all those journalists and writers who have been replaced by technology that they can also move into the world of numbers if they want to. I've always seen the math language of digits as a foreign tongue. In this way, it's seems inscrutable like reading a music chart and understanding the note symbols. Alien.
If we can cross over to the other side, I wonder if this could make it easier for people to learn an instrument or read musical charts. Math minds do better at that.
There’s something quietly revolutionary in how you turned logic into a kind of poetry. You dismantled the old “word brain vs. math brain” myth without ever raising your voice. The bridge you describe, between fear and curiosity, feels like the real alphabet we should all be learning.
When you talk about logic as connective rather than cold, do you think that same principle applies to emotional reasoning too? In other words, could empathy have its own hidden logic we just haven’t learned to read yet?
The idea of it being anxiety and not lack of skill hit hard for me. Anxiety bars my entry into a lot of things. Oh how I wish I could vanquish it. I wish you luck on your endeavors!
As a fellow journalist and word person, I found your story really intriguing. Like you, I had always thought that math wasn't my thing, even though near the end of college I did a series of tests on my skills and found that I was best at math. Still the idea persisted.
It's important for all those journalists and writers who have been replaced by technology that they can also move into the world of numbers if they want to. I've always seen the math language of digits as a foreign tongue. In this way, it's seems inscrutable like reading a music chart and understanding the note symbols. Alien.
If we can cross over to the other side, I wonder if this could make it easier for people to learn an instrument or read musical charts. Math minds do better at that.
You are on to something here.
There’s something quietly revolutionary in how you turned logic into a kind of poetry. You dismantled the old “word brain vs. math brain” myth without ever raising your voice. The bridge you describe, between fear and curiosity, feels like the real alphabet we should all be learning.
When you talk about logic as connective rather than cold, do you think that same principle applies to emotional reasoning too? In other words, could empathy have its own hidden logic we just haven’t learned to read yet?
The idea of it being anxiety and not lack of skill hit hard for me. Anxiety bars my entry into a lot of things. Oh how I wish I could vanquish it. I wish you luck on your endeavors!