everyone please please please google growth mindset
i feel like i constantly see posts saying “i hate math” “i’m just not math brained” “i can’t fulfill my dreams because math got in the way”
i’m reading a book by dr. carol s. dweck called “mindset: the new psychology of success” and she explains very clearly with 100s of examples what the differences between fixed and growth mindsets are. she then goes on to show you how you can change your mindset. no, she’s not saying everyone can do everything all the time and you’re always going to succeed with a growth mindset, but she does show how you can change the way you deal with failure in order to be more determined to pursue your dreams.
you’ve been trained all your life to believe that math is difficult, and it is, but so is learning how to play the guitar or being an athlete. you have to put in the work and tell yourself that you can succeed. also, plenty of people work through disabilities every day. there isn’t one correct way of doing anything in math and although at the end of the day there is one answer, you have to concern yourself more with where you went wrong and how you can fix it, rather than giving up and calling yourself a failure.