Expert: Scott A Wilson - 9/26/2009

Question
What I am interested in is mental arithmetic.I really admire those people who can do sums in his head.So, can you do the same thing?Will you tell me which way will lead me to a advanced player?

Answer
  This sounds interesting and tends to bring a lot back to my head, so buckle down and lets go.
Yes, I do math in my head for I know it by God's grace.  I even do sums on words.  For example, YES is really sq(7).  This is because Y is the 25th letter in the alphabet, E is the 5th letter, and S is the 19th.  E+S is the same as 5+19=24, and 24+Y=24+25=49.
Now I also know that sq(49)=2,401 and cb(4)) just a sec ... yeah, I was right, is 117,649.
Oh yeah - its the fourth root of 5,764,801 since 1^2 = 1, 2*1*2,400 = 4,800, and 2,400^2 = 5,760,000.

 I believe the best way I've found to get better is by memorizing scripture.  When I first started, I had trouble with one line at a time.  After doing this for awhile, I could do a verse at a time.  Now I am up to paragraphs at a time.  Of course, it probably helped me in school when I memorized Matthew 5, 6, and 7 (the sermon on the mount), Romans 6 (don't sin), and Psalm 23 (the Lord is my Shepherd).  When I was done with college, I needed to trust God to really be there and ended up in a car accident.  I was in a coma for three and a half weeks.  My brain was shifted way out of place by a few degrees and a few centimeters, but was brought back by when my Pastor lay his hands on my head and prayed for me.  This really amazed the nurses.  I woke up when the Sunday they prayed in church on the following Sunday.  Now that's amazing in that people were only let into my room for 5 minutes out of every 2 hours, and they were in my room when I woke up.  Coincidence?  There is no such thing - it was God, just doing his daily business.

 After I awoke, they use to bring the interns around to my room.  They told them, 'Remember everything you learned in college about head injuries?  This is an exception to the rule.'  You see, when I was first brought in, I was in surgery for over half a day.  After that they gave me a 2% chance of just living, with no chance of walking.  I woke up, have walked, run, rode my bike, hiked up a mountain, and had fun ever since.  I worked at Boeing for five years, but was caught in the downsizing.  I worked at Safeway for over five years, but had to quit when my feet hurt so bad due to fasciitis.  That is where your souls break down and give you pain when you remain in one position for more than a second or less.

Half my brain is dead, they say, but that’s alright and that’s OK.
The average man needs 10%, so just on that, I forward went.

 Did you know that Y is E*E?  Well, Y is the 25th letter in the 26 letter alphabet and E is the 5th.  Now last I knew, 52 was 25.  To that I can say, YES I did.

  What I have found to do is to pray, rejoice, give thanks to God, know how awesome God is, always give him praise, and let God do it all.   In all things, give thanks to God.
Whatever it is you want to know, do it and do it and do it some more.  Do it while there’s nothing else to think about.  Do it as you’re going to sleep.   See, when I do anything, I don’t think that it is improving me.  But as I live the thing God gives me is his grace which on my face does put a smile for quite awhile.  See, God is good, and so we should give God great praise on all our days.  That’s praise him now and praise him then and they you’ll see, he is a ten.  I don’t know where I these words come from, but its for Jesus I do hum.

  As I told someone else, whenever I get to writing like this, the side of my brain (that is suppose to have my math) is dead and I shouldn’t be doing what I’m doing.  But what it is I’ve got to say is it’s to Jesus I do pray with knowledge He will guide me on as it is to Him I am drawn.

  So the way to really be successful is to always give thanks, study hard, have a place to put down your thoughts, smile at everything, know Jesus loves you, and praise God.  Don't be afraid of anything, but gid thanks and go for it.  God shows how to do the rest.