Math felt like a boring training to learn about the “habits of how I think”
Honestly, I rarely use the formulas themselves once I’m an adult, but I think it was training to get the sense of “trying to think through things you don’t understand in a logical way,” and “even if you can’t do it on the first try, you start to see patterns little by little” into your body. Maybe that boredom and that sense of fogginess, along with everything else, became material for me to understand “what kinds of ways of thinking are hard for me, and when do I find it a little enjoyable.”