I wish that they sounded greek actually. And I refer to maths of course. This never ending nightmare with numbers. At school maths and physics (as maths are also included there) were a reason to shoot myself. My brain is paralysed in front of numbers. My yin and yang kill each other. My skills end in just adding numbers. Everything else does not interest me at all and this is the main reason I always neglected this "sport".
Some people are just better at verbal subjects -if you love science you must know that. And my brain according to the way it has been programmed detests numbers. It is utterly uninterested. Show me some eggs and a bunch of logarithms and I will react the same. Nuh uh. In fact with the eggs I could at least bake a cake.
I always got a general idea -and by general I mean GENERAL- though. For instance in physics I was interested in the way things work until being asked to prove how they work. Why? Because I don't care. Let others who enjoy solving problems get the job done for me and leave me alone. Theory is fine, 'cause theory has words in it. "This happens because of this and that". Fine! Understood! But this, 52−x+x−5x+2+3x+8x2−4=0 is like this @#@#^^*((T$%# to me. Non-sense.
All these years I've been struggling to deal with all those difficult equations and I at least hoped to be useful again some day. No. Nothing. Nobody after school asked me to solve any of these problems again. I studied communications and cultural anthropology and I came across no numbers there. And when I go to the super market the cashier machine always does everything right for me. Life is that simple.