I suck at math

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I suck at math 2017-09-08 08:30:03 Post No. 18702206
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I suck at math Anonymous 2017-09-08 08:30:03 Post No. 18702206 [Report]

I'd post this on /sci/ but they'd laugh me out.

I'm very good at doing highschool math - which is, following basic pre-taught instructions to arrive at certain answers. I'm even decent at the slightly more open-ended geometry proofs, if only because I'm practiced so many of them I've developed a gut intuition as to what 'tools' to use when solving what type of problem.
But when I went to college, everything broke down.
When a professor writes a proof on the board, I GET it. I understand it, even on an intuition level (although sometimes only on an intuition level). Same goes with all those math channels on YouTube. I get what they're saying, I get how they reach all these conclusions. And yet, as soon as I'm faced with an open problem (even something as "simple" as proving root-2 is irrational) I'm completely stumped. I have no idea how to begin to approach the problem. It's almost like I like lack CREATIVITY to solve all these proofs.

How do I stop being such a brainlet?

Anonymous 2017-09-08 08:37:11 Post No.18702214
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>>18702206
I know everything above that line but rarely ever use anything but algebra
t. engineer

Anonymous 2017-09-08 11:24:31 Post No.18702486
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Anonymous 2017-09-08 11:24:31 Post No.18702486 [Report]

>>18702206
Boring old fart here.

I was a whizz at high school math. Straight As, awards, scholarship offers. I entered college as a math major and took my first calculus class. It might as well have been conducted in Sanskrit. I understood nothing, absolutely nothing.

I changed my major, did well in the new field, and never looked back.

Get the point?It is not the end of the world

Anonymous 2017-09-08 11:33:55 Post No.18702504
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Anonymous 2017-09-08 11:33:55 Post No.18702504 [Report]

You get a more fundamental understanding of math when you have to use it to do a job, I.e. The Sumerians discovering the Pythagorean theorem to build, all the ancient cultures that had sophisticated calendars to predict eclipses, etc.

If you don't need to be creative, then you won't be

Anonymous 2017-09-08 04:45:49 Post No.18702994
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Anonymous 2017-09-08 04:45:49 Post No.18702994 [Report]

a lot of smart people who study math or physics run into problems with the harder stuff. Jeff Bezos had a realization at Princeton that physics wasn't for him because there were people who were much better at it than him.

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