The Importance of Math in Life

I think there's something ritualistic about it, something that's sort of like spiritual in a way. The math is weirdly meditative. You intimately become very aware of the planetary placements because you had to go through the process of calculating exactly where they were. I worked at a movie theater, a couple summers, and I earned maybe between seven and eight dollars an hour. And so yeah, I think that experience definitely makes you appreciate things more when you have to do things sort of the long slow hard way.

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