🧠 The Math Lie: You Were Never Bad at Math—You Were Taught to Fear It 🔥

The Not Old - Better Show

Paul Vogelzang

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 106 Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2026

⏱️ 38 minutes

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🧠 The Math Lie: You Were Never Bad at Math—You Were Taught to Fear It 🔥

🧠 What if math was never the problem—only the way we were taught to see it? In this episode of The Not Old Better Show, Paul talks with award-winning author Junaid Mubeen about Think Like a Mathematician and the surprising tools math gives us for everyday life: spotting patterns, weighing choices, escaping all-or-nothing thinking, and understanding why small actions can change everything. 🔥 From combinatorics to chaos theory, this is math without the panic and with real purpose—especially for adults 60+ who are still curious, still learning, and still rewriting old stories. 🎧 Listen now and retire "I'm not a math person" for good. Because better thinking is healthy aging, too. ✨ Tune in now.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Not Old Better Show on radio and podcast.
0:11.0	The show covering all things health, wellness, culture, and more.
0:15.1	The show for all of us who aren't old were better.
0:18.0	Each week, we'll interview superstars, experts, and ordinary people doing extraordinary
0:23.4	things, all related to this wonderful experience of getting better, not older. Now here's your
0:29.3	host, the award-winning Paul Vogelzang. Thank you and welcome to the Not Hold Better Show. The Art of Living interview series. I'm Paul Vogel saying today we're taking on a subject that too many of us were taught to fear or to avoid or apologize for mathematics. But my guest today says math is not just numbers on a chalkboard. It's not just
0:58.5	equations, exams, or that little moment of panic when someone asks you to calculate the tip. Math, at its
1:06.1	best, is a way of seeing can help us understand change, choices, arguments, misinformation, uncertainty,
1:14.3	relationships, technology, of course, and even the stories we tell ourselves about our own
1:20.5	intelligence. Janade Mubin is an award-winning author, mathematician, and educator.
1:27.2	Janade Mubin is the author of Think Like a Mathematician, Simple Tools for Complex
1:33.0	Everyday Problems, as well as Mathematical Intelligence.
1:37.3	Junete Mabin is a well-known author.
1:40.2	He holds a PhD in Mathematics from Oxford University and a master in education from Harvard University, where he studied as a Kennedy scholar.
1:48.0	After years working on innovative learning technologies, he now develops virtual math initiatives for students from disadvantaged backgrounds.
1:58.0	He has so much to say to our Not Old Better show audience.
2:02.6	All of us are curious about math. We should be. Jean-Aid Mubin, welcome to The Not Old Better Show.
2:11.2	Geneid Mubim, welcome to the program.
2:14.7	Thanks for having me. It's good to talk to you. Thanks very much for sharing your book. Think
2:19.6	Like a Mathematician. I've really enjoyed it. We're going to talk about that. We're going to talk
2:24.7	about some of the simple tools that make complex everyday problems easier to consider.
2:31.5	And I want to, I definitely want to get into the math part of it, because I think that's a really special thing. And I think today math is just so important. But I also want to ask you about the human element in, in this, because you've been in lots of very lofty educational spaces, Oxford, Harvard, educational technology. But your work now is really
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