Don't Let Maths Anxiety Hold You Back Unleash Your Number Skills

25 Aug 2023 · 0 min

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This content was created by Robin Waite. This content was uploaded by Robin Waite. This is a YouTube video titled "Don't Let Maths Anxiety Hold You Back Unleash Your Number Skills" (posted 2023-08-25). The excerpt is a spoken segment by a single speaker (labelled SPEAKER A) discussing maths anxiety and how people who skipped advanced math tell themselves they are 'not good with numbers', which leads to emotional overwhelm when confronted with financial terms like operating profit and margin.

if I think of people that I know, they managed to do drug dosing completely fine. They managed to do like kind of weight and drug calculations. But maybe because they didn't do A-level maths or A-level further maths, they think, oh, I'm not good with numbers. And it's like a story that they've just told themselves repeatedly to the point that the thought of dealing with tax or hearing fancy words like operating profit and margin and all that shit gives a real kind of emotional sense of overwhelm. Yeah.