Am going to keep it short. Am 26 currently been working for uber and lyft. I got admitted into Arizona State University last year. My entrance exams included mathematics. I have always struggled with mathematics all my life and the most i can do is basic number sets and operations and that’s it. Please don’t bother recommending any way to improve because trust me i have tried. My mom is a teacher and a counselor and my dad was a teacher as well. All my siblings are well educated in math and they have tried and i have deleted my YouTube, Facebook, gym membership etc. to focus and nothing has changed and even fell in love with it but every time i would fall asleep during math’s class. Please please please please, if anyone has a good career advice or any solution to bypass this and get into a career that is rewarding and deserves my handwork, i will appreciate it. I’ve had no zeal to move on with life anymore because of am very ambitious, good person and hardworking. I wanted to plead to my fellow humans for help and that’s all i have before i make my next decision!
Oh right the other comment.
You might want to look into expanding your working memory. WM is basically RAM for conceptual, categorized, logic-ready content in your mind. And it’s like RAM in a computer: it can make operations more efficient, it can allow running tasks in parallel, and it can enable new programs that require a certain minimum amount of RAM to run.
I’ve found corollaries of each of these in my own mind after expanding my working memory: work takes less of a toll on my brain per unit of work, I can multitask with things like keeping track of what I’m doing and holding a conversation, and I can suddenly understand things that plagued me for decades. They just clicked, and I can see how it was because I just couldn’t load up enough points of data at once to correlate them.
I haven’t tried math again but I bet I could get further into it now.
Am confused, how did you manage to expand that? Thanks
One day I was stuck on the subway and played a Lumosity working memory game for over an hour. I had a dull, numb feeling in my head and it was hard to think by the end. My scores dropped sharply.
A couple of days later, everything was different. It was like I’d been working on a little school desk where I could never quite open the textbook and the notebook at the same time, and suddenly had a big office desk to lay my papers out on.
So basically working memory n-back games for long periods of time, to the point of exhaustion. Be aware that it seems to take longer recovery than muscles. I have to plan for at least two days of semi-downtime before I recover, because things are way harder for a couple days after reaching exhaustion.