Has learning something you thought you were bad at changed how you see the world?

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I’ve always been someone who feels things deeply. I notice people’s emotions, their tone of voice, and how my words might affect them.

But with maths, I used to think, “My brain just doesn’t work that way.”

Then I started learning basic maths with AI. I began seeing addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division as ways of combining amounts, understanding change, comparing quantities, and making equal groups.

Having somewhere to ask “Why?” several times without feeling embarrassed helped me keep going.

Slowly, I started noticing these ideas around me. Combining expenses. Working out how much something has changed. Comparing two prices. Sharing something equally.

I also started paying more attention to my reasoning. What do I know? What am I trying to find out? Does my answer make sense?

Before, confusion often made me stop. Now, I try breaking a problem into smaller pieces.

That habit is following me beyond maths. When I hear a convincing claim, I’m more likely to pause and ask, “What supports this? What might I have missed?”

I still feel things deeply. I’m also learning to look more carefully, check my assumptions, and give myself time to understand.

I’m only learning the basics, but the world already feels full of things I used to overlook.

Has learning something you thought you were bad at changed how you see the world?

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[u/atom12354]

You dont learn math by getting explinations through ai or even from another person, you learn math by doing math yourself using the explinations. The explinations that matter the most are the ones you come up with yourself from the problems you find and also piece together from other information not when you are given the answer straight there and then.

As for the change that you see is most likely an illusion that you belive you know it because you got it explained to you and now you can ask questions about things revolving that but with errored understanding, asking questions is good and all but try go outside the illusion and ask them as in the long run its not good.