How come I know different languages, but suck in math, chemistry?
You may be better at languages than at such even more symbolic things as exercising in maths and chemistry because words, and the images that those words and sounds convey or refer to, tell you more than such signs and symbols of mathematics and of chemistry. I also like words and etymologies, also in a few different languages. But I would have loved to do more about mathematics, physics, chemistry, but the vicissitudes of life moved me away from such good scientific subjects. Those subjects fascinate me a lot, and that is important: to be fascinated. If you are not fascinated by somebody or in something, if a mathematical formula or a result does not make you shout Ahaaa! you should not make it into a trouble of you not being much proficient in mathematics. You cannot be clever at everything; the world would envy you too much if you were. You will have to choose, to think of vocational priorities. When I think of mathematics, or, more simply arithmetic, I am sort of proud about still
