Have you ever felt you were too dumb to study math or science?
How did you overcome it?
Is it better to accept that you're not smart and switch to a business major instead?
Have you ever felt you were too dumb to study math or science?
Ayden Collins
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Levi Jenkins
>How did you overcome it?
Get an IQ test.
Carter Gray
practice
Anthony Gomez
I got a 104 but still struggle with engineering math 1
Juan Rodriguez
If you are pursuing, chances are you are able to do it. It's really rare for someone who is too dumb to learn something to even give a shot at it. If you were too dumb for it, you would be one of those "I don't know how to divide 25/2, ok? It's too hard" people. It is probably the case that you don't actually have a Gauss-level IQ, but definitely not too dumb for it.
Sebastian Carter
Look up:
- Cal Newport's Study Hacks blog and optionally his books
- CollegeInfoGeek
- Make It Stick book, partciularly the last chapter.
- Summary of the Learning How To Learn course (I think there's some good Medium post about it).
Ultimately, learning is meant to be difficult and painful.
And I sincerely mean that in all of its entirety -- hours upon hours of rumination, confusion, fustration, inepitude.
All of that, for that one stupidly small level of insight required to wrap our heads around whatever that woes us.
What you describe is just an instantiation of the foregoing; your sense of self-efficacy in learning these higher-order abstract consequences.
tl;dr IMO it's not meant to be overcome.
You just get better at handling /feeling/ dumb.
After all, the only thing we know is that we know nothing.
Dylan Peterson
>Have you ever felt you were too dumb to study math or science?
At the start of every university lecture in physics, mathematics, chemistry or a related ("hard" science) field, yes.
>How did you overcome it?
By choosing civil engineering.
Jeremiah Evans
>How did you overcome it?
I haven't and after years of this shit I don't think I ever will be able to. Being a brainlet has destroyed my life and I'm gonna end up killing myself at some point in the next few months.
Blake Lewis
>How did you overcome it?
I studied more. Reviewed the things that was "assumed we already knew" for holes in my understanding and studied outside the curriculum.
I still feel like a brainlet, but at least I don't feel like an imposter anymore.
Adam Gutierrez
I feel like I'm good at learning what is taught in courses and solving problems but ask me to do research in a lab and I'll be clueless