Catching up school with brilliant.org
High school was not my thing, I was bored, it was dull. I guess I felt in that way because the goal was to pass exams to eventually get a degree. However, I wasn't aware of what I could have learned until I felt frustrated about not being able to grasp math concepts related to audio. Then I noticed that my high school learning frustration was not with maths only but with other areas I was inclined again to such as biology and astronomy. I had to find a solution to this.
The root of my learning issues was being excessively focused on music. I developed tunnel vision during my high school and uni years that only restricted my world to that area. My passion about it made my brain narrow, my social life was limited to musicians and I was convinced that my existence should be in that way. But, changes happened when I interacted with different kinds of professionals in the video game industry. My world got colours, my brain embraced diversity and my desire to learn everything was intense once again.
My new open-minded attitude was fuel for researching a platform that I could use to absorb all that knowledge I'd revelously ignored. I found Brilliant.org, I jumped into it and played around with its interactive lessons. First logic, then arithmetic and one by one I completed lots of courses in a three year span. I thought I would've taken less time but hard courses such as trigonometry and calculus needed much more of my effort and my attention.
Calculus was a particularly hard topic for me. I had to do integral calculus three times to get closer and closer to understand it, still I couldn't get it fully. Then, I found out that Brilliant interactive lessons worked as concept abstractions which was awesome for the beginner I used to be but not anymore. I thanked Brilliant for all I learned from it and moved on to libretexts and then stayed with openstax. Learning calculus from openstax university books was much better and I'm learning economics now. I'll write about it in another entry though.