[Serious] What are your overall opinions on people who are idiots in math?

[Gentle_Idiot]

People have always considered me smart. At least most did. But I cannot, in good conscience, not admit that I'm abysmal in math. Like seriously. I am just terrible at it. If forced, I can do math, but I'm slow as heck in it.

I was told by a few educated people that certain individuals who tend to be great at either math or languages are usually abysmal on either while being great on the other. I guess I'm one of those people.

So... What do you think? Did I inherit bad math-brain chromosomes? Or am I just lazy when it comes to studying math? To be perfectly clear, I actually have a very sharp memory.

Might be your chromosomes, might be a rubbish math teacher or curriculum in your childhood. Hard to know without a professional diagnosis.

There's a grain of truth to the notion that people are often stronger in languages or math. Two of the common modes* of thinking are verbal and conceptual. If your brain spends a lot of time in verbal mode then you'll likely have an edge at languages but find math harder. If you spend a lot of time in conceptual mode then math will be easier but you may find languages more challenging. That said, some people are brilliant at both or horrible at both.

*There's a lot of debate on exactly how many modes of thinking there are and how to group or split them, but you can make a fairly good argument for a split between verbal thinking that engages the languages centres of your brain and non-verbal thinking.

Thanks bud. I at least have one of those two to lean on. I do feel sorry for those born without a talent for both. If there is a loving God, surely he would've made sure everyone had some fighting chance in intellectual pursuits...

Too bad he doesn't exist.