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comment by caeli
caeli  ·  3388 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Mathematician's Lament

Yeah see, that's how I always felt about math. I loved it so much that it was always easy for me and didn't have to work. I didn't have a natural affinity to history and ended up just hating it. But learning history on my own is so fun because I get to control what content I learn...I learn about the history of things that actually interest me, and I don't start by thinking, "hmm I should really memorize these names and dates because that's what history's all about".