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Life & careers beyond math?

Aside from basic math like addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and sometimes very basic geometry and fractions for measuring, what areas of life, love, creativity, artistry, careers, achievements which benefit humanity, emotional, spiritual growth, etc. do not require as their basis, or a fluency in the specific language of math?
I asked a similar question in math section, @ noteable people whove made great contributions to life without fluency in math but most repliers could not grasp that their can be equal or greater creativity, love, personal growth & insight, artistry without math as basis. While its true some people choose to try to use math to dicipher expressions & processes of artistry, life, love, emotions, etc using math, it is still after the fact so to speak. And not the actual feeling, event, etc.
What are many other ways of being,creating, living & perceiving that are not through lens of math that are at least as valuable as math based ways?


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:

Sounds like a question for the philosophy section, if anything... However, I do not think that everything is mathematical, though some mathematicians may argue otherwise. Although a lot of the arts are math-based, the majority isn't; and if to go a step further back, the thoughts that create the art are in majority non-mathematical which takes us even further to say that thoughts in general are, by majority, non-mathematical; and if we assume that thinking is the major area of life where people exist and create etc than we found the thing that everyone does constantly all the time without needing math to support it.