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Shakuntala Devi - Everything around you is mathematics. Everything around you is numbers · the Daily Quote - Positive Daily Inspiration and Motivational Quote of the Day

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  Dot com. Welcome to the Daily Quote, the
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  podcast designed to kick start your day in a positive way.
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  I'm a host, Andrew McGivern and let's jump into today's quote
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  from Shakuntala Devi, an Indian mathematician known as the human
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  computer. She could multiply 213 digit
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  numbers in her head in 28 seconds, faster than a computer.
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  She earned a place in the Guinness Book of World Records
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  and amazed audiences worldwide with her mental calculation
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  abilities. She once said everything around
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  you is mathematics. Everything around you is
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  numbers. Think about what she's saying
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  here. Most people see math as
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  something confined to classrooms and textbooks.
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  Numbers are what you do when you're forced to balance a
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  checkbook or calculated check. But Shakun tell at Debbie saw
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  differently. She saw numbers everywhere and
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  in everything. The rhythm of your heartbeat,
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  That's numbers. The pattern of leaves on a tree,
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  numbers. The structure of a song,
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  numbers. The timing of traffic lights,
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  numbers, the architecture of the building.
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  All of these are numbers. This isn't just about math.
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  It's about pattern, structure, order, and understanding.
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  When you start seeing the world through numbers, you start
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  seeing how things work. You see the patterns that govern
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  everything. You understand cause and effect.
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  You see the systems beneath the chaos.
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  And here's what's powerful about this perspective.
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  It gives you control. When you understand the numbers,
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  patterns, the probabilities, structures, you can predict
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  outcomes, you can make better decisions, you can solve
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  problems others can't see. Shakuntala Devi wasn't just good
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  at arithmetic, she was good at seeing the invisible
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  architecture of reality. So here's the question.
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  What patterns are you not seeing because you think you're not a
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  numbers person? Everything around you is
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  mathematics. Everything around you is
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  numbers. Start looking for them, they're
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  everywhere. That's going to do it for today.
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  I'm Andy McGivern, signing off for now, but I'll be back
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  tomorrow. Same pod time, same pod station
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  with another daily quote.