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Kwik Brain with Jim Kwik

110: Overcome Math Anxiety to Conquer Your Finances with Danica McKellar

Kwik Brain with Jim Kwik

Jim Kwik, Your Brain Coach, Founder www.KwikLearning.com

Education, Brain, Memory, Jimkwik, Productivity, Business, Kwikbrain

4.75.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2019

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Today's question for the Kwik Brain community is: how do you overcome math anxiety to the point that you can improve your finances?

You might know Danica from her role as Winnie Cooper in Wonder Years, but what you might not know is that in addition to her lifelong acting career, Danica is an internationally-recognized mathematician, New York Times best-selling author and advocate for math education.

Dealing with money and finances is one the most practical reasons to learn math—unless we are able to deal with numbers, institutions can take advantage of us without us even knowing it. Many of us have learned to avoid numbers after learning to fear math in school, but the good news is this can be turned around, no matter your age!

In this conversation, we explain why avoiding maths can derail your finances, and why learning math is a form of self-care. We’ll give you some ideas for bringing fun into your math learning, and simple steps you can take to get started. We’ll tell you how math can help you feel in control of your life and make dealing with your finances fun.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Quick Brain,

0:01.4

Bite Size Brain Hacks for busy people

0:03.6

who want to learn faster and achieve more.

0:06.0

I'm your coach, Jim Quick.

0:08.3

Free your mind.

0:10.5

Let's imagine if we could access 100% of our brains capacity.

0:15.5

I wasn't high, wasn't wired, just clean.

0:18.2

I knew what I needed to do and how to do it.

0:20.6

I know Kung Fu.

0:22.4

Shulman.

0:27.0

Welcome back, Quick Brain.

0:28.2

So here's your question.

0:29.4

People ask about this a lot in our private Facebook group.

0:32.7

How do you overcome math anxiety to the point

0:36.5

where you could improve your finances?

0:38.7

Because they go hand in hand.

0:40.2

When we're thinking about credit card statements

0:42.4

and interest rate and refinancing this or your 401k,

0:46.7

all of these things, even people playing the lottery.

0:48.6

They don't know the math behind winning the lottery.

0:51.6

And so I'm excited to have this conversation

0:53.6

around math anxiety, the fear of numbers.

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