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What's your natural talent? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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 :]

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (9 children)

I'm great with mechanical puzzles. I apparently have a really good intuition about how things interact.

I only know that I'm unique about it because of a military test my highschool made us take where I scored higher than 99% of people who took the test. I just thought it was the "easy" portion. I'm also pretty good at logic puzzles, but it definitely doesn't feel as "natural" as mechanical puzzles.

If you're wondering, no, I didn't go into engineering because it turns out I'm not really good at math.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (4 children)

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 :]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

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!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

C = BxA

Move A underneath C and swap the equality

B = C/A

A lot of algebra is spatial manipulation.

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