You're smart, witty and intelligent.

You've overcome many challenges in your life.

And yet, you can't do simple math sums in yourhead.

Ever wonder why not?

In this short article, you're going to discoverthe ONE reason you struggle with mental math.

And I promise you, it's NOT the reason you thinkit is.

You see, it’s NOT your natural math ability, orthe way you were born, or any of the other lameexplanations you've been conditioned to believe.

No.

The real reason you're not a calculating whiz kidis startlingly simple.

In fact it’s right in front of your eyes as youread these words now. And yet it’s been hiddenfrom you all your life.

To understand it, you need to take a moment andcast your mind back to your schooldays...

Imagine yourself in the math class, writing anaddition sum into your little notebook. Somethinglike this:

245 +
631

Doing what you were taught, you take your penciland first add up the units... (5 plus 1)

Then you add up the tens... (4 plus 3)

You do the same with the hundreds... (2 plus 6)

And finally you have your complete answer.

That's what you were taught. And that's how you domath:

Units... Tens... Hundreds... Thousands... etc...

Except... now there's a problem.

Because the way you were taught to do math onpaper was suicidal to your ability to do math inyour head.

Do you know why?

Because you were taught how to do math...BACKWARDS.

You were taught math back-to-front: from right-to-left.

Think about it. When you read a number, how do youdo it?

Take a look at this number and read it out:

123

What did you say to yourself when you saw it?

You probably said "One Hundred and Twenty Three".Or "One Two Three".

Whatever you said, I'll bet you didn't say..."Uhm, 3 units, and then 2 tens that makes twenty,and then 1 hundreds..."

The fact is, your mind processes numbers from leftto right. (The same way you're reading these wordsnow.) But the "school" part of your brain istrying to process them in the opposite direction.

Are you beginning to see why you struggle to docalculations in your head? Quite simply...

YOUR BRAIN IS STUCK IN REVERSE GEAR!

What would happen if you were taught to drive acar the same way you were taught to do math?

- Your neck would ache from the strain ofconstantly looking over your shoulder.

- You'd never go anywhere fast. And...

- You'd be a danger to everyone else on the road!

Pretty soon you'd give up driving completely, andsettle for public transport.

Just like the day you gave up trying to calculatein your head... and settled for a lifetime ofcalculator dependency.

Want to know another shocking secret?

If you have kids in school or college, you canguarantee their brains are stuck in reverse geartoo.

Why?

Because the education establishment doesn't likerapid change. It prefers the traditional "Tried &Tested" approach.

Unfortunately, as you know, the traditionalapproach doesn't always work.

(If it did, why are there an estimated two millionpeople suffering from 'math phobia' in the UnitedStates alone?

And that's not including the millions more whocould dramatically improve their math ability justby changing their approach.)

Let’s look at that little addition sum again:

245 +
631

This is easy to do from left to right:

You add 2 and 6 to get 8.

You add 4 and 3 to get 7.

And you add 5 and 1 to get 6.

The answer is 876.

Simple, isn't it?

Look, if you learn nothing else about math...start calculating from left to right.

With just a little practice you'll "read off" thecorrect answer every time.

And you'll wonder why you missed the secret ofmental math for so long.

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