“…when faced with a situation, we start out
with some guess.” (Polya 158)
When
my father died putting my education in jeopardy, I was left guessing too about
the future course of my life. Our family was debt-ridden, my elder brother’s
marriage was about to end, and we didn’t have enough income to support the all
of us as well as my education. It became increasingly difficult to delve on
things other than monetary.
In
retrospect, I found that the shift of mental energy from non-monetary to
monetary assisted my mind to think mathematically; I was not at that time
conversant with the argument that mathematical mind deals with any problem in
an organized manner. It was much easier to deal with scarcity of resources than
the loss of my father, and to cut down on my expensive whims than suffering the
grief of my mother.
