 Why is math important? It's one of the most frequent questions that I've been asked. It's also one of the hardest to answer. It's one of the craziest as far as I'm concerned because it's such an open-ended question. You know, the question should really be why is math important to you or to me or to society? In general, it's just it encompasses so much. It's equivalent to asking, you know, why is good health important? Why is it important to be intelligent? Why is it important to be able to read and write? It's such an open-ended question. Whenever that question has come my way, when someone's asking, you know, asking why math is important to them, you know, I have to sort of gauge the situation. I sort of look at them personally, you know, what I know of them, how long I've known them, what tone they're using to ask me the question, you know, why is math important, right? Is it a sarcastic tone? Is it a genuine inquisitive tone that they're using, you know, why is math important? And, you know, depending how long I've known them and, you know, who they are, you know, the mood that I'm in, sometimes I'm cut and dry, you know, very sharp, telling them exactly why math is important in general. Or if I know them personally, if they like something, I try to incorporate, you know, that aspect of it into the answer. The most frequent answer that I provide to individuals when they're asking me personally, if I know them as to why math is important, is that life, you know, it's a sweet life, it's amazing or it can be amazing, but it's also an extremely brutal life or it can be an extremely brutal life. And in life, if you haven't been knocked down yet, you know, where you have to live, you know, pick yourself up and, you know, catch your breath, if you're, if you're lucky enough, if you've been lucky enough not to experience that, then, you know, this probably won't relate to you. But in general, it relates to the majority of people out there. And that is that life can be extremely brutal at times. And mathematics, knowing math can help you out in those times, okay? Mathematics, at worst, at worst, it won't affect your life. And that's rare because you really, really have to know no mathematics at all, for it not to affect you, okay? If you know even the tensiest bit of mathematics, it's going to help you out in life, okay? And that's one of the main answers that I provide to people, which is, you know, life can be extremely brutal at times. So it's a good idea to have as much, as much support as you can in life, when you're living your life, because the odds are you only get one chance at this, right? And if that's the case, then, you know, mathematics can only help your life. Another answer that I provide, you know, to this question is that, you know, mathematics will help you optimize, live your life as best as you can, okay? No matter what you're doing in life, or what you want to do, or, you know, whatever you want to create, however way you want to interact with life, maybe through art, music, economics, politics, whatever your gig is, whatever you want to do, mathematics can only help you, okay? And again, that's, if you're really concerned about being the best at what you're, you know, you want to be, if you want to excel in life, if you want to optimize whatever it is that you're doing, then mathematics can only help you. Short and quick answers is you must be out of your mind if you think being illiterate in a language, in the most used language in the world, which is mathematics, both between humans and humans, and humans and machines, and machines and machines, right, through technology. You must be out of your mind if you think knowing mathematics is not important. In the past, maybe that was true, you know, 100 years ago, 200 years ago, in your daily life, you know, mathematics was probably, knowing mathematics was probably not as important as it is today, right? But if you knew mathematics, you could get, you know, very far, a long time ago, right? So knowing mathematics in the past was not as important as it is today. And it's, and right now, it's nowhere close to being as important as going to be in the future because of technology, right? So mathematics, knowing the language of mathematics, being illiterate in the language of mathematics, is becoming more important as we evolve, as we progress. Another answer that I provide to people, certain types of people, certain types of people that are, you know, more interested about making money about, you know, building an empire. Some of them, you know, people are into building empires. So if you're into building an empire, acquiring a lot of material possessions, you know, make a lot of money, buy a lot of things, and have financial freedom, really. If you're really interested, when it gets down to it, that's really what it's all about, right? Having financial freedom. The people who want to build an empire, they, you know, they have extravagant taste. Some of them, some don't know what the price tag is for that, right? But in general, when it comes to money, when someone tells me that, you know, they want to make a lot of money, it just basically comes down to them wanting financial security, right? And if you really want financial security, you have got to be out of your mind if you think you can have it without knowing mathematics, okay? Or you might fluke out and make a lot of money doing something. And some people do, you know, acquire a lot of wealth by accident. To keep that wealth, you're going to need to know math. It's plain simple. It doesn't get any simpler than that when it comes to life, when it comes to, you know, being financially secure in life. To be able to keep your money, to be able to keep your wealth, to be able to live a secure lifestyle, you need to learn mathematics. If you don't know math, then you're relying on other people telling you the truth of what's going on. And if you're doing that in economics, in business in general, unless you're surrounded by extremely trustworthy people and the information coming to you is 100% accurate, and I don't know that world exists, are you sure? It's not here right now. If you want to be able to keep your wealth, then you have to know math, okay? The basics of mathematics, which is basically, you know, high school math, okay? One of the things that provide to people in general, actually everyone that we talked about, one of the most common answers that I give people is, you know, we're human beings, we're social creatures. And, you know, because of us being social creatures, most of us, you know, do want to be attractive and attracted to the, you know, whoever want to be attracted to, right? So in life, in general, if you want to, you know, if you want people to like you, if you want to be attractive to whoever it is that you're interested in, whatever, whatever situation that you're interested in, whatever partners you're interested in, whatever people you're interested in, right? If you're interested in being attractive, as far as I know, and it's pretty much well accepted fact of reality, that there are two main things that we have that are the most attractive features of us. One is what we have in our hearts, right? Who you are, how you interact with the world, right? What you decide to do in the world, if you're good, if you're evil, if you're nice, if you're not, if you try to, you know, walk a certain path, this path, or that path, whatever it is, right? If you're interested in attracting, whatever you're interested in attracting, one of the most important things you need to have is what's in here, right? What's in your heart? The other one is what's in your head, right? So the two most attractive features of human beings of us is what's in our hearts and what's in our minds and mathematics is a really, really important, you know, important bit of information. The language of mathematics is a really important bit of information to put into your mind. As basic as it gets, knowing mathematics makes you smarter. So those are some of the, you know, just personal answers depending on who's asking me that question that I provide to people, right? Based on who they are, what I know of them, how long I've known them, what mood I'm in, what tone that they're using, and, you know, there are different types of answers that you can provide. Fine tune to individuals, you know, if you know them well or if I know them well, I fine tune it to why, why math might be important to them. If they're asking me why math is important to me, then, you know, all I can say is that math has helped me out in life. I can't, I can't even imagine what my life would be like if I didn't know math. I really can't and I think it would be a horror as far as I'm concerned because mathematics has helped me out in every aspect of my life. Every single aspect of my life, mathematics has helped me out, okay? And, you know, whatever that doesn't hurt you can only help you and mathematics is one of those things that you can learn in life that will help you out in life, okay? And that's, you know, that's the straight up answer that I can provide of why math is important to me, okay? Why mathematics has helped me out in life and has been important in my life.