Would You Rather Be Gifted in Math or Prose?
 

If you could be gifted, which would you choose?

i am gifted.......
but i picked numbers.....as math is the basis for all things.....from astrophysics to bra sizes.......

Sometimes neither. I know a lot of people who are very smart (quite a few who are gifted). Most of them are very akward to be around and a lot of them get bad grades. I am the same way. I scored the highest in the class in the mathematical aptitude test in the honors math class at a very acedemic high school but I had one of the worst grades in the class.

Words for me... (just read some of my posts :()

I wish I were a more proficient mathlete, key to the universe, math is.

You don't get to pick though, the high score for me on the SAT was for verbal.

Good words can get you out of a bad math situation. Much less so in the other direction.

I didn't vote. I'm pretty darn sharp in math. I can get my point across, but I'm certainly no poet or wordsmith.

I wanted to vote both. I'd like to be a renaissance man. I'm more gifted on the math/science side of things, but I really love creative stuff (unfortunately, not very good at any of it).

Yup!

Talking numbers don't get you laid.

I think you know my vote.

At my age math is not gonna be very useful day to day. I'd rather be able to write really well.

Words are man's doings, and entirely subjective by culture and time.

Math is not.

Maths can be taught...

Words??? Anyone can be taught the basics but real world usage... Not so sure.
More of a gift than anything else.

BTW: Interestingly Einstein always said he was bad at maths. :D

Math, I suppose....but then, prose didn't hurt some folks. Hemingway, et al. On the other hand, behind every successful writer are thousands who didn't make it.

I can do math when I feel like it. I'm not the craftiest with words though. I agree with Gogar, you can talk yourself out of about anything if you are good enough.

I'm Asian. I didn't have a choice in the matter.

Numbers, I am not artsy.

Maybe the class bored U?

Einstein said, "Math is the language of God."
With math you always know how the story is going to turn out at the end.

We spend most of our lives communicating with others.
Although the language of numbers can be beautiful, most people understand words.

Les

I see most people here assumed by "words" you mean the written word. If I had a choice I wish I were better at the spoken word. I can write, I am good enough at math to have gotten and engineering degree, but I would rather set fire to my 'nads than give a speech in public.

I didn't vote either. Too hard to know what it would be like on the other side.

I do pretty well with math and make a decent living at it, but I'd love to be able to write something besides a technical paper.

I think the real benefit to math is you can make a decent living at it with a little effort. With writing it seems like your style has to match what many other people want or you're just another struggling writer.

It does remind me of the joke:

"What does an engineer use for birth control?"



"His personality"

Bingo! I'd trade some of my math aptitude for just a tiny smidgeon of musical talent in a heartbeat :)

I thought you were going to say, method #69.