• Lauesen Isaksen posted an update 3 years, 10 months ago

    Why?

    With apologies to Shakespeare – "let me count the ways"

    What numbers do we love?

    birthdays

    data and crime lab stats as in the media shows

    cell phone numbers

    addresses

    happy anniversaries

    milestone markers individuals children

    test scores

    lotteries

    horse races

    What numbers do we hate [or dislike]?

    school math

    birthdays

    weight

    bmi

    test scores

    sad anniversaries

    Some numbers come in both categories because our love or hate sometimes is dependent upon your number!

    Numbers in cultures and religions

    In some cultures our age number is assigned whenever we finish that year along with other cultures that age number is offered at the start of the entire year – beginning on the beginning of life. And that means you age number will differ according to your culture!

    In Hebrew, all letters have a very numerical equivalent and every word’s number could be the total of those individual numbers – therefore words have numerical meaning along with the literal meaning. Along with the Hebrew bible [Torah or Old Testament] features a book called Numbers.

    Particular numbers have significance based on your beliefs. Some are 3, 7, and 666.

    Children love numbers

    counting games

    boardgames

    birthday candles

    the volume of cookies or presents

    how old they are

    just endless reciting of numbers or counting

    Teens and Adults enjoy the love-hate relationship with numbers

    If we so love numbers if we are young – what goes on that individuals commence to dislike them?

    Let’s start with parents who wish to discuss the terrible 2’s. Would be the 2’s so "terrible" or shall we be held pre-programmed to believe so? And should we pass this on to our little ones so they really start to learn that some numbers are not-so-good???

    Then we contain the amorphous "someone" who informs us that arithmetic is actually difficult. I don’t know who started this myth yet it’s a myth. Worse – we tell children that arithmetic is harder for girls than for boys! So those numbers begin to type in the hate category.

    We love turning 13! Were teenagers! And soon we could drive!

    We desire to get good grades at school and also on the tests that "matter." If your numbers are certainly not what we were hoping or expecting we get sad or even depressed. Yet not many of us wonder if those test numbers mean anything in real life outside school. We assign love/hate for them.

    Along with many countries we like reaching the legal era of driving, drinking and voting or marrying. These seem to be good numbers so we love them.

    Unless, obviously, we hate them!

    Look at the numbers in your lifetime and instead of developing a love/hate relationship with them, imagine whatever they mean to you and why…then learn how to love all of them! They are your numbers and they are you!

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