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- And so I was like, "Okay, well, what would I have to do to feel like I was good at math?" And I was like, "Well, people who like can do math in their head, I think that's a pretty cool thing." And so I didn't use a calculator for anything for years.
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Abschnitt 1 I always considered myself to be bad at math.
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0:00I always considered myself to be bad at math. But when I was in my 20s, I made the decision [music] that that didn't serve me anymore. And so I was like, "Okay, well, what would I have to do to feel like I was good at math?" And I was like, "Well, people who like can do math in their head, I think that's a pretty cool thing." And so I didn't use a calculator for anything for years. Nowadays, if you were to ask people, "Man, is Alex good at math?" They're like, "Dude, he just rattles [music] off numbers like crazy." But the thing is is that until I was in my 20s, I thought I was bad at math. And so it's like we are so much more pliable than we think we are. And we had something that set us on a trajectory a little bit earlier in life that just gave us maybe a little bit of disadvantage. Fine. You just have to get over it. No one cares about what happened to you then, only what you can make happen now.