>Be me
>waste your whole life up to 30 being neet for long stretches
>suck even at basic mental math
>kinda managed to 3rd world de-educate myself from elementary on:
>didn't realize as a 6 yr old that math actually isn't supposed to be hinging on mental visalizations all the time
>so I never started trusting my intuition for pure numbers
>also thought I was doing it wrong if I actually memorized tables of any kind
>so I kinda handicapped myself by not doing that
>instead of learning multiplication tables ended up "challenging" myself with ever bigger numbers
>started thinking I can somehow hack it with some sort of system
>didn't really work out either since I was no trachtenberg at the age of 7
>am now basically illiterate when it comes to even reading simple formulae or solving algebra
>also have some sort of performance anxiety about picking the broken pieces
Where do I start? Will building a habit out of playing with around with the trachtenberg method somewhat restore my math brain?
>waste your whole life up to 30 being neet for long stretches
>suck even at basic mental math
>kinda managed to 3rd world de-educate myself from elementary on:
>didn't realize as a 6 yr old that math actually isn't supposed to be hinging on mental visalizations all the time
>so I never started trusting my intuition for pure numbers
>also thought I was doing it wrong if I actually memorized tables of any kind
>so I kinda handicapped myself by not doing that
>instead of learning multiplication tables ended up "challenging" myself with ever bigger numbers
>started thinking I can somehow hack it with some sort of system
>didn't really work out either since I was no trachtenberg at the age of 7
>am now basically illiterate when it comes to even reading simple formulae or solving algebra
>also have some sort of performance anxiety about picking the broken pieces
Where do I start? Will building a habit out of playing with around with the trachtenberg method somewhat restore my math brain?
