The magic of fractions ✨
Do you recall early math education? How you learned about whole numbers (1, 2, 3, ..) and then later on, fractions (0.1, 0.01, ..)? Today it struck me what a marvelous concept fractions is and how relevant it is to ✨ life ✨.
When you only have the concept of whole numbers, everything becomes either OR. It’s either option 1 or option 2. Black or white. Fractions opens up a world of grays and introduces AND. Now you can have 1.2, mostly option one with a dash of option 2, or any other variation in between. How marvelous to see the world in such granularity! How many more options are now available!
I am reminded of this in my everyday pursuits. In a world of whole numbers, the only milestones worth celebrating are the big ones—the project launches, the promotions. In a world with fractions, we have the granularity to celebrate 0.000001% progress— one idea, one conversation. It’s not 1, but it’s something, which is still more than 0.