Thread: OK, this is an odd question...

So I'm an astrophysics major, but I'm not terribly fluent with math (ironic, huh?). For some reason I understand things conceptually very well, but when equations get into it it's almost like my brain freezes. Someone once suggested it was a form of test anxiety, but I'm not really sure. Any ideas?

Originally Posted by John Partika

So I'm an astrophysics major, but I'm not terribly fluent with math (ironic, huh?). For some reason I understand things conceptually very well, but when equations get into it it's almost like my brain freezes. Someone once suggested it was a form of test anxiety, but I'm not really sure. Any ideas?

If you think of your brain as a muscle, what you do a lot of you get stronger at. I find that things I'm interested in and put my time into is the things I'm good at. But just as if you practice enough you can become ambidexterous, I think that if you started finding a way to play with math you'd start finding you get stronger.

Wasn't it Einstein that said somehting like "Genius is 10% inspiration and 90% persperation."?. Who cares if you're the next world class genius, its the journey that has the fun, not the destination.