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Math oh how i used to love you and adore you.
From primary school i was a God to the rest of my class at maths. Straight A's and the occasional B. Understanding everything before the rest of the class did. I miss this so much.
The Reason i come to you is 3 weeks ago i took my MBTI and i registered as INTJ. i took multiple other tests and im still INTJ on all. Im telling you this because you may question me being a INTJ after reading this.
I lost interest in math. I have for years. After i hit high school i kept doing my maths the same as i was before and by this i meant i hated the calculator. They said you needed to use it everyday but i hated it cus i LOVED using my head to work everything out. Because of this the curriculum eventually got harder and harder and my head couldnt keep up fast enough then i got stuff like Trigonometry which became too hard for my head by it self. The rule from primary school that you shouldnt use your calculator was burned into my head pretty bloody hard. Anyway because of all this i lost interest because i couldnt use my head anymore. I was required to use the calculator as a extension of my thinking and i could not accept that.
So ill skip ahead a few years to today. I really want to get back into Maths Hardcore and i want to go from maths A to B before i finish school. But whenever i try to do it i just cant stay on task. Like an INTJ my mind starts to wander and i go into my mind because when i am in the class room it just seems so uninteresting to me.
So basically im having a conflict in interest. I want to get back into math but i cant stay interested in it. As most of you aparently still have the love for it i need your opions and ideas on how i can get back into it. By the way if it helps my lifes goal is to get into video games programming and i litterally have already mapped out a way to get into that in which the reqirements of getting A's in math isnt needed but C's. So i also have this idea in my head that i dont need to go over then what is necessary. All i would need is passes (which im getting. C's in everypart. B-B+ For knowledge but communication mark is usually a D as like a intj i have trouble conveying my thoughts into written works when i dont have the time usually to add all that in) and i do a steps course to overcome my lack of a OP and im college eligible.
So i want to get more interested in Math and i have tried so many things. So please convince me otherwise. A compelling point provided with facts will be nice or even a way to change on how i think things may help. What ever you think is best that will restore my love/interest in maths i will greatly apprciate it.
(Yes my grammar is atrocious but i dont care for english much. Hell help me there if you want)
EDIT: Just a small list of things i have researched to death in the spare time i spent away from maths in class.
Anonymous hacktivist group (Litterally researched to death and because of this i love /b/. Also say if you like /b/ or not as i see it apply's to my "Warped" sense of humor aparently INTJ's have)
Adolf Hitler and world war 2 (I know so much on this i can probably write his autobiography off the top of my head)
Modern History (Yes this is a school class. Its funny i dont take it and this is a apparently OP class but hell the things they do in it they make it sound so huge but it sounds so easy to me. They had to write a 2000 essay about propaganda. How the hell is that hard i love propaganda)
World Politics (Not entirely researched all sides yet. Will get there)
MBTI (Last Three Weeks i spent trying to nail all of this down. Currently looking into the aspect of it that i can use this to determine others personalities so i can better socialize with them. Not fully learned about the Ne and Fi thing yet. Don't ruin it for me as reading stuff like this is like reading a good book to me)
So yeah the time i spend in maths that i could of spent getting A's i spent getting C's and the rest researching all of this. By the way i only listed the things i researched within the last year up to this point in time.
EDIT: I just decided to look into dyscalculia and see if i have it. I would love a definition of it please as what it's characteristics are as from what my preliminary thinking as a mentil illness concerning maths. Please correct me if im wrong.
From primary school i was a God to the rest of my class at maths. Straight A's and the occasional B. Understanding everything before the rest of the class did. I miss this so much.
The Reason i come to you is 3 weeks ago i took my MBTI and i registered as INTJ. i took multiple other tests and im still INTJ on all. Im telling you this because you may question me being a INTJ after reading this.
I lost interest in math. I have for years. After i hit high school i kept doing my maths the same as i was before and by this i meant i hated the calculator. They said you needed to use it everyday but i hated it cus i LOVED using my head to work everything out. Because of this the curriculum eventually got harder and harder and my head couldnt keep up fast enough then i got stuff like Trigonometry which became too hard for my head by it self. The rule from primary school that you shouldnt use your calculator was burned into my head pretty bloody hard. Anyway because of all this i lost interest because i couldnt use my head anymore. I was required to use the calculator as a extension of my thinking and i could not accept that.
So ill skip ahead a few years to today. I really want to get back into Maths Hardcore and i want to go from maths A to B before i finish school. But whenever i try to do it i just cant stay on task. Like an INTJ my mind starts to wander and i go into my mind because when i am in the class room it just seems so uninteresting to me.
So basically im having a conflict in interest. I want to get back into math but i cant stay interested in it. As most of you aparently still have the love for it i need your opions and ideas on how i can get back into it. By the way if it helps my lifes goal is to get into video games programming and i litterally have already mapped out a way to get into that in which the reqirements of getting A's in math isnt needed but C's. So i also have this idea in my head that i dont need to go over then what is necessary. All i would need is passes (which im getting. C's in everypart. B-B+ For knowledge but communication mark is usually a D as like a intj i have trouble conveying my thoughts into written works when i dont have the time usually to add all that in) and i do a steps course to overcome my lack of a OP and im college eligible.
So i want to get more interested in Math and i have tried so many things. So please convince me otherwise. A compelling point provided with facts will be nice or even a way to change on how i think things may help. What ever you think is best that will restore my love/interest in maths i will greatly apprciate it.
(Yes my grammar is atrocious but i dont care for english much. Hell help me there if you want)
EDIT: Just a small list of things i have researched to death in the spare time i spent away from maths in class.
Anonymous hacktivist group (Litterally researched to death and because of this i love /b/. Also say if you like /b/ or not as i see it apply's to my "Warped" sense of humor aparently INTJ's have)
Adolf Hitler and world war 2 (I know so much on this i can probably write his autobiography off the top of my head)
Modern History (Yes this is a school class. Its funny i dont take it and this is a apparently OP class but hell the things they do in it they make it sound so huge but it sounds so easy to me. They had to write a 2000 essay about propaganda. How the hell is that hard i love propaganda)
World Politics (Not entirely researched all sides yet. Will get there)
MBTI (Last Three Weeks i spent trying to nail all of this down. Currently looking into the aspect of it that i can use this to determine others personalities so i can better socialize with them. Not fully learned about the Ne and Fi thing yet. Don't ruin it for me as reading stuff like this is like reading a good book to me)
So yeah the time i spend in maths that i could of spent getting A's i spent getting C's and the rest researching all of this. By the way i only listed the things i researched within the last year up to this point in time.
EDIT: I just decided to look into dyscalculia and see if i have it. I would love a definition of it please as what it's characteristics are as from what my preliminary thinking as a mentil illness concerning maths. Please correct me if im wrong.