So, I was having a Think after a discussion I had with some amazing Girl Scouts about how they really like art, and music, but aren't a big fan of their math/logics classes.

And I think this was kind of a major epiphany for me. So, disjointed thread where I hope I make a point

Some backstory: growing up, I loooved reading, drawing, and writing. My "note taking" in class was literally just drawing. And like, I was actually pretty flippin' legit at it, for a child.

So like, this isn't from someone with no brain for all that.

As a result, my parents and everyone around me were.. well, *astonished* when I announced I wanted to go into computer engineering/Comp Sci.

Like, I was the theatre geek. The one who won art contests. The kid who taught themself piano once. And I'd never gotten an A in math!

Well, here's the thing.

EVERYTHING can be broken into maths. Art? You literally have the Fibonacci sequence for setting your proportions. Theatre/music? Well, you have the concept of beats.

And for math - REAL math? You need *creativity*

Logic isn't just sitting around in a stuffy room that needs a good air-out from the mummified remains of various chalk boards. You don't figure out the route from A to B just by.. being. You *need* that creativity - that same creativity that exists in the arts.

I've found that musically inclined folks make amazing engineers. They can destructure like nobody's business.

But the issue is that people who like math curb themselves by saying they're "bad at art", and artists decide they're bad at math.

These disciplines exist together, not separately in a box. Society's impressed upon us there's right and left-brained people, and we just accept that and decide that you can only be good at one thing.

I disagree with that.

Strongly.

Engineering is an art.

Art and math are entwined.

Math's not simply solving for x, or finding derivatives. It's also not properly taught.

And programming.. well, it's definitely not simply art.

Stop limiting yourself because someone told you that your art was "bad."

Don't decide you can't code because you can't do math. I have dyscalcula (dyslexia that affects numbers) - and I'm doing great in my career.

Don't put yourself in a box.

also, destructuring. I think that's an important topic here.

Learning how to make art is destructuring what you want to put out, into its nuts and bolts. The same happens with writing, music, theatre, etc.

THAT is where the power lies :)