Could be as trivial as a type of food, a TV show, or something more serious.

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I wish I liked football and basketball so I had something in common to talk about with most people.

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People. Because they are such a disappointment.

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Myself.

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Math and by extension programming. It makes sense. Then I fill in the numbers, it enters my brain and then just goes to a garbled mess. I get lost in a for loop. WTF…

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Maybe your just learning from the wrong place? A lot of people who say they aren’t a “math person” often just have a shitty education.

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I didn’t say I’m not a math person. It literally becomes confusing. I imagine it’s like how dislexia works. They know words. They know what words say, just putting them together doesn’t happen the same way as everyone else. I fundamentally understand the individual elements but I just can’t assemble them properly in my brain like I can with everything else. Even if I know the formula and put the numbers in the right places it’s like the processing step in my brain just…doesn’t, or won’t. Hard to explain.

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Dyscalculia?

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Yeah, a lot of math education teaches memorization. This isnt math. If you can understand how a formula was derived, rather than just memorizing the formula, I find it a lot easier to remember. I’m not really memorizing a formula exactly, rather I understand better of how I get from what I have to what I need.

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I agree, my highschool often just stated mathematical equations without explaining what they were. They told us you find the sidelength using sin and gave js a formula and thats it. They didn’t say what sin actually was/represented, how to calculate by hand or even show us the classic unit circle like on this website https://www.mathsisfun.com/geometry/unit-circle.html

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Exercise in all forms

Its boring and tedious.

Strength training?

Life up that heavy thing. Great. Now put it back. Repeat 9 times.

Its nice for people who enjoy it. I find it to be … literally the most pointless thing you can spend your time doing.

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When I was losing weight, tracking my progress on things like running and weight helped me stay consistent with it. Every time you exert yourself, it’s towards a goal, and if you can track your progress it feels less pointless.

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