What skill would you like to learn?

I have always believed that everyone has an exceptional talent and something that stands out from others because of this expertise.

At times, I’ve suggested that to Students who, over the years, have been upset or challenged by the belief that they have no expertise or ability and very much at all.

That advice is something that I’ve shared with my grandchildren at times when they may have had doubts about what was happening. It often comes to people feeling challenged lacking in deficit management and contribution skills.

I have been glad to offer those reassurances and believe that they have been helpful to those to whom the advice has been given.

That said, we all do have areas of skills challenge. The one skill deficit that has let me down over many decades has been my failure to understand and comprehend most branches of mathematics and everything relating to physics or chemistry.

In terms of maths, arithmetic is not a problem, and it is a discipline within the mathematical field that I like and handle reasonably well. To me, for some reason, it makes a lot of sense.

The mathematical issue and challenge are in my failure to understand or comprehend what to me is “abstract mathematics”. I don’t know geometry, algebra, trigonometry, or calculus.

Arithmetically, I am fine but would be in the bottom 3% of people in Australia regarding accomplishment and understanding of the other arms of mathematics. I would very much like to have an overall mathematical grasp, not arithmetic alone.