Money? The economy? Do you understand numbers? I dont understand any of the above, and im taking this chance to admit that. Its a great big glaring gap in my knowledge and comprehension of this world, and no matter how i try to fill it, it wont be filled If this makes me of very low intelligence then thats what i am I can barely count the coins i need to pay my train fare This is my question and confession for the day. Not many people know that i can count and talk about money in many many languages, yet ive never understood fully what this actually means, apart from being a cool party trick
i don't like anything involving numbers... and i know what you mean about not being able to count coins very well... it should be so easy, but i just can't do it fluently. but i think it's got a lot to do with the left and right sides of the brain and whichever side is dominant - the right side of my brain is dominant (involves the arts, music, philosophy etc...) and because the left side of my brain is recessive i'm terrible at things like maths, physics, science etc.
Of course not having a good grasp of a certain areas of human knowledge doesn't make you dumb. If you want to learn more, you could take a class, or just read more online about it. If not then, don't worry about it. Personally, I can count really high in French, but I'd have trouble ordering dinner.
No you are not dumb. I am willing to bet, as honey said, you are very creative though, as that side of your mind is probably the dominant force. That is something to be proud of in itself. Many people cannot draw, write, craft, and so on. Don't worry about the numbers, leave them to the accountants.
i hate math and science and anything to do with numbers. youre not alone. i have noticed that for most people, its one or the other. your either good at math and all that or you're good at language and art and philosophy. so i think its normal, because its rare that a person is great at everything.
"Counting" train fare involves adding up the numbers (which i cant do) Counting in a language just needs me to remember the sounds in sequence, which i do well
Thanx lots everyone I feel better! Yeah its a left brain/right brain thing, although not many people i know seem to have such a dominant side. Im glad its not the other way round though and i struggle with language and art, that would be much trickier
i understand that there is no limit to the complexity of excuses people can come up with for lying to themselves. that to me is what looks like the motivation at the root of the pseudo-science as it is taught and persued, of economics. oh and math isn't for complexly emersing yourself in the artifical 'reality' of symbolic value, but for making mechaincal gizmos work. the former is an unconscounable dessicration of it. you know what i don't understand, is how, making it so we have to have a lot of little green pieces of paper to feel free, is supposed to have a whole lot to do with any kind of real freedom. actually i don't think there's anything to understand about that. it's just what some people who imagine their getting something out of it for the rest of us to do so, want us to believe. =^^= .../\...
