Funny, while i would never give up my ability to do math for writing, i feel the other way around in regards to which one can be learned and which one can only be "gifted".
I always was utterly unable to get decent grades in linguistics. No matter how much i tried ;)
I was a bit disapointed, it was a little dry and you couldn't really taste the cheese. On the other hand, the consistency should be perfect to pan fry them and serve them up with some spinach (i'll post it here this evening if it turns out well)
You might know that already, but there is a huge amount of incredibly aproachable math videos out on youtube which truly give you a firm grasp on a lot of deeper subjects. Notable exemples are 3b1b, 2swap, lines that connect, the gray cuber, zye...
Also, if you want to widen your deck of modeling methods, there is also a wide array of game-dev/coding videos which can give you ideas on how to model 1d->2d 2d->2d and 3d->3d data as well as graphs etc... In order to be able to attack many more problems and questions. Examples here inglude acerola, pezza's work, sebastian lague, code bullet, inigo quilez...
In general, i feel like there is no proper way to learn math, the proper way is to learn math, no matter how you do it. Sure it's useful to be able to read equations and all, but you don't have to go to school for that ;).
Man, when you get a good question going, and it follows you for a few month/years it feels like a guardian angels watching over your shoulder fending off boredom.
And when you finally solve it :D. Bliss, getting to say
"yup, i've done all i could with this one, i'm satisfied, let's see what's on the internet"
and you realise so many people asked similar questions, had different aproaches, went further there, shallower there.... And you just get to add your pebble to the mountain ★_★
Funny, while i would never give up my ability to do math for writing, i feel the other way around in regards to which one can be learned and which one can only be "gifted".
I always was utterly unable to get decent grades in linguistics. No matter how much i tried ;)