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Apology accepted!

I am talking about an academic subject, or perhaps a skill. Not necessarily truth.

In my elem and high school days I was killer in math but quite indifferent to history. This “caused” two things:

1: I never really had to work to learn the next stage of math. Run me through a few examples, work through a dozen problems, and I latch on and get it.

2: I never really had to work to “learn” history at a level sufficient to get “B”s in elem >HS history. I really did not care about history, at the time I thought it was pretty useless to learn.

As a result, I never really “learned how to learn”. Of course, this was the 60’s and 70’s and we did not have the touchy-feely distinctions we have now, in essentially everything.

I am just saying, there must be approaches to learning things that you are WILLING to learn but have no special knack for. I never got that/those. When I got to Berkeley taking advanced math courses, every kid in that class was as smart as the smartest kid in class (which I almost was in HS) I got 19’s and 24’s on tests.