Seriously, this is relevant, some of the shit I have to learn at university is so far out there, that I have nothing in my mind where it would be even just remotely comparable too and therefore I have trouble memorizing it. Even if I do memorize some stuff for the exam, I have forgotten most of it three weeks later, which makes the whole thing feel like a superficial exercise. I thought i could just learn to approach the things more like I did when I was a kid but I just fucking can't, it's impossible, even if there's technically nothing to get confused by, I find it hard to overcome certain thinking patterns that I've always followed or certain assumptions on how to think about a something even though they were unfounded and wrong.

What do I do? I'm 20 by the way.