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Could be as trivial as a type of food, a TV show, or something more serious.

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[–] Noodle07@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Coconuts or water melon, y'all seem to be enjoying it so much...

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[–] kozel@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Maths. It's my field of study and I'm reasonably good at it, but I'm no more able to find joy in a nice definition etc. It's just boring.
Even if I study some out-of-syllabus topic I know that is interesting, it doesn't interest me.

[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Maybe try working backwards? Find a real world phenomenon that interests you and explore the math that models its behavior. It's a big subject with lots of variety, symbolic logic is different from DiffEq which is different from topology which is different from dozens of other subsets of mathematics. They all function differently and they can all represent different phenomena; maybe it's just the abstract nature that bores you.

[–] kozel@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

The abstract things is what I used to enjoy the most. But I shall think about your advice, thank you.

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