Applying mathematics to everyday
In one of the interviews I appeared for last month, I was asked to solve a logical question, “Where did you stand in your locality/region w.r.t. your 10th standard score?”
I arrived at the answer, using some guesstimation techniques.
This exercise made me play with my analytical, logical, artistic, and emotional peripheries. And I wanted to share it since it made some sense to me.
In retrospect, I see many of my friends who probably were more textbook-smart than I was or had different privileges.
Out of all those students who appeared for the 10th board, some students made it to the colleges they wanted to study at and pursue the independence they dreamt of. I became one of those kids (thanks to some of my privileges and despite not having a few).
I believe the innate human nature is to search for ‘freedom’ — in many shapes and forms. And everything we do in our lives is to get a step closer to that.
From the time we are born, we run after some or the other kind of freedom, and this search leads to either an act of rebellion or submission(the exact opposite) depending on the person, their situation, and their idea to pursue something.
This exercise reminded me of recognizing a pattern that worked out for me for a long time. And that was realizing what my best capability was, at that moment, in that year, in the past couple of years, and also — looking a little ahead.
I didn’t always put out this plan in the same way. This somehow was like solving a calculus problem — dealing with the only constant — Change.
Our uniqueness and continuity make our journey stand very differently. Your pattern and pace are going to be quite different than mine.
I am many pages down, and yet solving. And I know it’s going to be a blackboard full of many erased equations, and yet not arriving at the perfect solution. But, I am okay with this fact. I know for sure, today I am.
