Why Math Is Hard?

Math is hard because you made it hard. If you jump straight to calculus without learning algebra and geometry, your brain will get overloaded. You’ll feel lost. And most people quit at that point.

The line I just said above — I mean it personally.

I have recently become passionate about electronics, and that requires strong fundamentals in physics and math.

I was thinking that I could learn all the math and physics in just 6 months. When I skipped the units/topics from Khan Academy (it’s a great free resource, highly recommended!), the load and frustration in my mind increased dramatically.

The lesson I learned: if you compromise on the fundamentals, then no matter how beautiful and tall a building you’ve built, it will fall during complex experimentation in any engineering domain.

Now I have made a plan to learn all of mathematics (I just know the basics of algebra) so I can build complex electronics projects effortlessly.

This may take up to 2 years if I put in 6 hours of regular practice daily (ChatGPT estimate).

If you truly want to understand math, you can’t be speedy. You have to increase the effort of learning math in direct proportion to your patience — the patience to stay with topics that are not yet touching your soul.

If you find an equation, don’t accept it as it is. Think of some real problem that you can solve with the given equation. If you think in that way, you will become a real problem solver. By developing this impulse, you can solve many mathematical or even personal problems in your life.

Isn’t that amazing, buddy?

I’m sharing this quote that I fell in love with. Hope you enjoy it too:

“Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.”

If you go deeper and deeper, you will find that truth. Your mind will become rational, and you will start noticing patterns everywhere.

It’s my personal belief that logic makes you more rational than the average (what Friedrich Nietzsche called “the herd”).

If you’re not good at math, it’s my personal advice to take another subject that you’re more interested in and curious about. Here’s another quote from Albert Einstein that comes to my mind:

“Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing it is stupid.”

So the point I want to convey is: discover what excites you the most, and that’s the thing you should go deep into. That’s where you’ll achieve higher than other people.

Hmmm, I’m seeing a pattern in the above paragraphs — I’m slowly and steadily going into motivational text, haha.

Best of luck with your math.

Last quote from me:

“The best way to love yourself is to find what you love the most. In doing so, you’ll build character — and no one can steal character from you.”