What specifically do you not like about it. And I don’t just mean “it’s too hard”, what specifically is hard?

I feel like most people would like mathematics, but the education system failed them, teaching in a way that’s not enjoyable.

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    I think this is true for lots of people. I also think there’s a bunch of us that have never had that feeling of it being a memorisation task.

    In fact, the reason I liked maths and science was because it wasn’t memorisation. Unlike languages (for example) you could always work out the bit you forgot, and didn’t need to depend on some made-up aide-memoire that only applied 75% of the time and remember what 25% it didn’t apply to.

    All I can think is that some early teacher failed you, and didn’t lay out how the foundations worked.

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      if the foundations of mathematics are dependent on a single early teacher… that’s a serious dependency for mathematics then.