Overcome Math Anxiety to Conquer Your Finances with Danica McKellar
Kwik Brain with Jim Kwik
Jim Kwik, Your Brain Coach, Founder www.KwikLearning.com
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🗓️ 18 April 2019
⏱️ 14 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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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Quick Brain, Bites-sized brain hacks for busy people who want to learn faster and achieve more. |
| 0:06.0 | I'm your coach, Jim Quick. |
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| 0:24.0 | Welcome back, Quick Brain. |
| 0:28.0 | So here's your question. |
| 0:29.0 | People ask about this a lot in our private Facebook group. |
| 0:32.0 | How do you overcome math anxiety to the |
| 0:36.1 | point where you could improve your finances because they go hand in hand when |
| 0:40.3 | we're thinking about credit card statements and interest rate and refinancing this or your 401k all of these things even people playing the lottery they don't know like the math behind like winning the lottery and so I'm excited to have this conversation around math |
| 0:54.0 | anxiety the fear of numbers and talking about things you could do to mitigate that |
| 0:58.5 | so that way you could actually conquer your finances if you will and I'm excited to have back in the studio |
| 1:05.1 | Danica McKeller and she as you know is the author of numerous books on math and |
| 1:11.8 | some of my favorite math books ever New York Times |
| 1:14.4 | best-selling author thanks for coming. Oh my pleasure yeah I've loved |
| 1:18.0 | writing math books it's been such an interesting addition to my acting career but yeah I've got this |
| 1:22.3 | great like dual career and I love that we're talking today about math and money finances because that is one of the most practical reasons to get good at math or at least to be comfortable with math. |
| 1:34.3 | I do speaking engagements quite often and one of the things I would say is look if you |
| 1:38.8 | are a child who is confused by math then you're going to keep avoiding numbers as an |
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