Maths Reasoning

That’s because math is harder for most people.

There is no difference between learning a name in history or in biology, or some workflow.

But math reasoning really filters out people in a way nothing else does.

All other topics just require memory and basic reasoning.

Even physics mostly is hard because of math. And philosophy, mostly because of jargon and references. Otherwise, if you break it down, it’s not that complicated.

But you can break down a math problem as much as you want, some of them are beyond what you can do comfortably. And a lot of students reach this limit early in their life.

I see this when I play board games with people: there is a threshold of rules and calculation power above which I lose 90% of the players. They just can’t enjoy it, because it requires too much effort to play.

It’s similar for me and sport. I’ve been doing exercise all my life, but my brother will always do more, and harder, because there is a barrier after which it’s just too painful for me.

Math and athleticism can be trained, but there is a hard ceiling. And even before you reach that ceiling, closing the gap gets more and more expensive for some people, so much the ROI is difficult to justify.