Something you're just good at with minimal effort and/or you learned much more quickly than average.

For me, it's paper snowflakes. My brain just seems to effortlessly figure out what cuts to make to the paper wedge to make it turn out exactly how I want it. Largely useless, but good fun and was a much-needed ego boost when I was a kid :]

    • spicy pancake@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 year ago

      With math, is it arithmetic that gives you trouble or the actual symbolic manipulation of mathematics?

      I am hot garbage at keeping track of numbers but turn those fuckers into letters and (at least for me) it's off to the races. Then I just convert everything back to numbers in the last step before jamming it all into a calculator. This method saved my ass in 400-level biochemistry courses. (Annoyed the shit out of the grad students grading my exams, I'm sure...)

      You may be better at "math" than you think :]

        • spicy pancake@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          1 year ago

          Good on you for just casually getting a computational physics degree without inherent math talent... like holy shit that's impressive!

          I have also cried over coursework on linear algebra as well as electricity and magnetism :') Brutal stuff.

      • Legolution@feddit.uk
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        1 year ago

        Please could you explain a bit more about the process you describe, above? Maybe with some simple examples? I'm woeful at maths but really good with mechanical and physical problems. If there's a way I can improve upon the former, I'd love to try.

        Thanks in advance!

    • Sickos [they/them, it/its]
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      1 year ago

      Mechanical adept here too. I am very good at holding and manipulating 3d objects in my brain, so I can kinda always just tell how something goes together to work.

      • sunbeam60@lemmy.one
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        1 year ago

        I lived in Canada for 6 months surviving on nothing but being a medical Guinea pig (I had no working permit and due to anonymity, very little was asked of people participating in medical trials, plus they paid a decent amount especially if pain or discomfort was involved); as part of this I went through a raft of IQ tests (there was always some gambling addiction trial going at UofT for some reason) and found out that, like you, I have exceptional visual intelligence - rotating objects in my head, and figuring out if something would fit together was super skills of mine. In every other way I’m decidedly average.