Do you remember when I talked to you about patience? It’s not a concept you make your own in five minutes, especially in the Western world. In the East, it’s already more natural.
Patience, like so much humility, I can say I only made it mine this past year, when I finally understood it’s not an enemy but a friend. Unlike other concepts, it didn’t happen instantly: it was a step-by-step journey, where each time I added one more piece until I made it completely mine.
My blog aims to go deep in giving you thoughts and concepts that have proven useful for me, always with the approach I use with those who know me: I tell you everything, where I teach I teach you everything, but it’s up to you to make it yours. You shouldn’t take and apply mechanically—that would be useless, counterproductive, and, forgive the term, even stupid. You must make it yours, elaborate on it, critique it, and make it part of you.
So, alongside patience, I’d like to talk to you about variables. If someone reads this they’ll say “Is this a math blog? Computer science?”, smiling I tell you no, don’t worry. I may be out there, as I like to joke, but it’s a broad and deep concept from what I’ve observed.
Recently, both as a society and as a family, liquidity has been something terrible, and in part it still is. Probably also for some reading me. But at a certain point I changed perspective and started reasoning about the word “money”. I noticed how this term, throughout history, has gained power and become first and foremost an emotional element that also leads to making mistakes in crucial moments.
So, as a computer scientist on one side and mathematics enthusiast on the other, I told myself: why not see them as numbers, as variables? After all, money is numbers, payments and income are variables. If your mind approaches them in a non-emotional but concrete way, it tends to manage them differently and with greater clarity, even when it would struggle to get there otherwise.
I’m not saying anything strange: if you think about psychology, often in other contexts it leads you to see from different perspectives or with different names.
Observing money as variables and numbers doesn’t mean not weighing them or not paying attention to them. It means giving them strong attention but with clarity, leveraging your own capabilities and potential. For me it was like this: even though the situation was worse than other times, I managed it and am managing it in the best way. Also because it brings me serenity in observing the medium-long term, where my processes and strategies are already starting to show results.
Really think about it. Don’t stop at a quick read, go deep into this discussion and observe how much it can offer you. It doesn’t mean making a topic sterile—on the contrary, it means giving feelings their proper importance.
In the next post we’ll explore better the relationship between variables, feelings, and analytical approach.