There's lots of positives in that. I feel too many people treat school as just a place you learn stuff, where in reality the most important part imho is the ch

There's lots of positives in that. I feel too many people treat school as just a place you learn stuff, where in reality the most important part imho is the challenge of learning, that's what sticks. I have a degree in chemistry, I almost forgot everything about chemistry, but I have very huge advantages when it comes to learning complex topics compared to those that have the explanation handed to them. In Italy you could not fail a school year if you failed only 3 topics, so the little engineer in me figured out I could simply ignore the existence of mathematics and physics for 5 years and just do the rest. In university I had to go through calculus 1/2, complex analysis, quantum mechanics, etc, etc. So as soon as I got into calculus 1 the first semester of the first year I bought several books on the topics and just went page by page understanding and thinking about the definitions and did 100x the exercises of my class mates. By the end of it maths have never been a problem in my life. Whatever I need to learn I am now equipped with the tools to do so starting from the basics and this pays off in many aspects of my life.