The differences between people amaze me. When I look at people who are great at one subject, but cannot grasp a different subject for the life of them, and then I turn around and see people who are just the reverse of that, it makes me wonder what it is about our brains and our bodies that causes that. For example, a lot of people do not like math. They may be fabulous pianists or historians, but something about math just doesn't click for them. Perhaps they don't grasp it particularly well, or they don't get the point of it. For some reason they just don't like it. Why do other people like math? What is it about their brains that allows them to just pick it up and do it? Then again, there are some people who can do math, but hate English. What happened in their early development to cause this in them?
Now, let me clarify myself a bit here. I believe that a lot of the dislike for math or science, or any other subject, really, comes from the way that subject is taught to the person. That is one of the biggest reasons I want to be a teacher. I want to be able to portray some joy in my subject to my students so that they can learn to better live with, if not like, a hard subject. The thing I am trying to say here is that I believe people are born with certain aptitudes, or talents. While we do not have to allow ourselves to be limited by it, everyone has their own strengths and their own weaknesses. Something has to cause that, physically, or mentally; something about how our bodies form changes what natural abilities we begin with. We do not start on the same ground.
I believe that God knew us before we were born, and he shaped our bodies and minds to the beings we were before we came into the world. Somehow we developed abilities and knowledge in that time before, and our natural abilities reflect that. I have found that many times God works through natural means, however, and I wonder what the physical differences are that he introduces into our brains to give us these natural abilities.
I'm starting to think I should be a neurologist.
