Solve for X

I often hear people say, “Mathematics was such a waste of time subject in school! I never solved for X in all my adult life!”

Now I will be the first to stand up and admit we learn little in school that teach us how to live, but I will also be the first to say you may not be right about your statement. Albert Einstein was brilliant at maths, but he was not a mathematician. Einstein was a philosopher. Simply because mathematics is more of a philosophy than a science.
When you solved for X,  and were stuck on a particular equation, you had to go deep for a solution, you had to find a possible way, to arrive at an answer that was possibly right! I remember on most days creating some interesting ways of arriving at the answer! It was never about solving for X, it was about the process that occurred while solving for X. It was getting your mind to function in a certain way.

Unfortunately no one got graded on being creative, thinking outside the box and making the impossible possible. You passed based on arriving at an answer. And so you grew up thinking you failed and then labelled yourself a failure. This belief you then carried into your relationships, your finances, your health, your everything else.

Have you ever heard this: “Just because it says NAME BRAND on the box, doesn’t mean it’s NAME BRAND in the box.”
Well just because you labelled yourself as failure, doesn’t mean you are one!
You have been using the process to solve for X all your life and you don’t even know it! It is how you survived up until now.

What else have you learned in school that is not true about yourself? What other lesson have you misinterpreted? Life is always teaching and showing us amazing things. But if we don’t take the time to look beyond what appears on the surface, then that’s akin to looking up at the sky on a cloudy night and claiming stars do not exist. You may be missing out on some of the most beautiful things in life.

So the next time you hear someone say I HAVE NEVER SOLVED FOR X ALL MY LIFE, you know exactly what to share with them.

Love,
H