Comments on: ­­­­­Why Numbers Suck. And What You Can Do About It. https://ohmygodlife.com/%c2%ad%c2%ad%c2%ad%c2%ad%c2%adwhy-numbers-suck-and-what-you-can-do-about-it/ Tools for Radically Joyful Living Thu, 24 Mar 2022 01:37:31 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 By: Z Egloff https://ohmygodlife.com/%c2%ad%c2%ad%c2%ad%c2%ad%c2%adwhy-numbers-suck-and-what-you-can-do-about-it/#comment-1979 Wed, 28 Aug 2013 20:02:19 +0000 https://ohmygodlife.com/?p=4465#comment-1979 In reply to Norma Miller.

Hi Norma,

Howdy! Thank you! Numbers rock! 🙂

XOZ

]]> By: Z Egloff https://ohmygodlife.com/%c2%ad%c2%ad%c2%ad%c2%ad%c2%adwhy-numbers-suck-and-what-you-can-do-about-it/#comment-1978 Wed, 28 Aug 2013 19:57:28 +0000 https://ohmygodlife.com/?p=4465#comment-1978 In reply to River.

Hi River,

I once heard a story of someone who went into a coma, and when they came back, they talked about how they had been learning about the mathematical formulas behind all of creation. As a nerd, I loved hearing this. Numbers are everywhere. But for some, they are annoying. I am glad that you are aware of your wave-ness on the endless ocean of numbers that loves and adores you. And so it IS!!! (2, 4, 6, 8, who do we appreciate? River! River!)

XOZ

]]> By: Z Egloff https://ohmygodlife.com/%c2%ad%c2%ad%c2%ad%c2%ad%c2%adwhy-numbers-suck-and-what-you-can-do-about-it/#comment-1977 Wed, 28 Aug 2013 19:54:32 +0000 https://ohmygodlife.com/?p=4465#comment-1977 In reply to Karen.

Hi Karen,

Go numbers!! I’m happy for your son. I’ve always been amazed and intrigued by people who dedicate their lives to mathematics. And you gave birth to one of them! Congratulations! 🙂

As for your summer camp experience, I love that a 14-year-old boy was using the phrase “old and careworn.” At summer camp. LOL

XOZ

]]> By: Z Egloff https://ohmygodlife.com/%c2%ad%c2%ad%c2%ad%c2%ad%c2%adwhy-numbers-suck-and-what-you-can-do-about-it/#comment-1976 Wed, 28 Aug 2013 19:52:10 +0000 https://ohmygodlife.com/?p=4465#comment-1976 In reply to Jerrine.

Hi Jerrine,

Yes – I’m glad that the test didn’t work out for you too! Given how logical and analytical we are in this culture, there are lots of creative, intuitive folks who just don’t fit in. There are others who love numbers but also don’t fit in. The dyslexia diagnosis is certainly an opportunity to notice and value other kinds of learning and intelligence. Like you say: Failure can be good! Amen. 🙂

XOZ

]]> By: Jerrine https://ohmygodlife.com/%c2%ad%c2%ad%c2%ad%c2%ad%c2%adwhy-numbers-suck-and-what-you-can-do-about-it/#comment-1975 Wed, 28 Aug 2013 00:29:30 +0000 https://ohmygodlife.com/?p=4465#comment-1975 I could never understand what was up with me and numbers…i could understand really deep math theory but numbers were a problem. One awful day i was desperate for a job and i went to Bell Telephone …the room was filled with long tables with young men and women seated along them we each had a paper with hundreds of phone numbers in columns we were to turn the paper over and record the numbers on the other side; easy? well, for each number i had to turn the paper 7 times, others I noticed were writing 7 or 8 whole phone numbers on each flip..years later at my heath food store I noticed that when ringing up a sale I would reverse the numbers as I some i knew they were wrong but I couldn’t stop, it was like people must feel who have a stroke. I call it dyslexia and i just remember how inadequate and small i felt in the phone company testing room. Really I know it was a Spirit protection for me for if I’d passed that test my life would have been very different…I might now be retired from a phone company in Trenton NJ….failure can be good.

]]> By: Karen https://ohmygodlife.com/%c2%ad%c2%ad%c2%ad%c2%ad%c2%adwhy-numbers-suck-and-what-you-can-do-about-it/#comment-1974 Tue, 27 Aug 2013 23:47:53 +0000 https://ohmygodlife.com/?p=4465#comment-1974 My son is a math professor, so I cannot publicly, officially say anything except numbers are the spice of life, the cream in my coffee, and the cat’s meow.

As always, wonderful post, Z.

I remember at summer camp, a boy told my friend and me that we looked “old and careworn” (at age 14). I guess there’s something about camp that makes a fella want to spill his guts.

]]> By: River https://ohmygodlife.com/%c2%ad%c2%ad%c2%ad%c2%ad%c2%adwhy-numbers-suck-and-what-you-can-do-about-it/#comment-1973 Tue, 27 Aug 2013 18:11:09 +0000 https://ohmygodlife.com/?p=4465#comment-1973 At first reading of your blog today, my head started to turn to cotton in that old familiar way…like when someone tries to explain physics to me. I just kinda blank out. I am still trying to do the math for the movie “Clue” (2+1+2+1+1???)! I also have trouble with that thing that sits on the bathroom floor that I tell it every morning that it is a liar and I am light as a feather!!!
Most of what I do about numbers is just laugh. If I can count, I am blessed that I just can! If my checkbook balances, its time for a party! If the scales didn’t break today when I stepped on them..wooohooo! I remember than I am a wave on an endless ocean of numbers that also loves me perfectly as I am.

*dancing off to the beat of 1-2-3-4-1-2-3-4*
R~~~~

]]> By: Norma Miller https://ohmygodlife.com/%c2%ad%c2%ad%c2%ad%c2%ad%c2%adwhy-numbers-suck-and-what-you-can-do-about-it/#comment-1972 Tue, 27 Aug 2013 17:05:05 +0000 https://ohmygodlife.com/?p=4465#comment-1972 New concept on numbers, really good Z I enjoyed it very much. Bless you.

]]> By: Z Egloff https://ohmygodlife.com/%c2%ad%c2%ad%c2%ad%c2%ad%c2%adwhy-numbers-suck-and-what-you-can-do-about-it/#comment-1971 Tue, 27 Aug 2013 16:42:44 +0000 https://ohmygodlife.com/?p=4465#comment-1971 In reply to Angela.

Hi Angela!

Great to see you here! I love it – math homework goes quantum. He’s lucky to have you as a mom. And it sounds like you made math much more fun and interesting for him!

XOZ

]]> By: Angela https://ohmygodlife.com/%c2%ad%c2%ad%c2%ad%c2%ad%c2%adwhy-numbers-suck-and-what-you-can-do-about-it/#comment-1970 Tue, 27 Aug 2013 15:35:58 +0000 https://ohmygodlife.com/?p=4465#comment-1970 I love science but stuggle with math. Our son is a math whiz but when he took physics he struggled with quantum concepts. I used eastern philosophy and metaphysics to explain and he did the math. He got a B and was thrilled. We then read Gary Zukav’s book The Dancing Woo Li Masters and bonded in a whole new way. Sort of our own little quantum project.

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