That may be true, but my “living experience” is causing me to doubt it, heavily. I’ve seen a lot of guys - most of them more gifted than me in math (I actually

That may be true, but my “living experience” is causing me to doubt it, heavily. I’ve seen a lot of guys - most of them more gifted than me in math (I actually switched to computer science after 2 years in university cause I fell in love with computers but math seemed too abstract to me) - so I’ve seen both brains and lives of these bright guys completely destroyed by alcohol abuse, completely destroyed, not an easy thing to watch.