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>>45999010
I've been thinking about giving science research a shot. Here's my theory about STEM: Nearly all intelligent people have *some* niche within STEM they would enjoy. The problem is, the niche you'd enjoy is likely buried underneath tons of pre-requisite knowledge which you won't enjoy learning about, so you say it's "not for you" because learning the basics of chem wasn't fun. The enjoyable parts come at the end, you just have to be extremely patient for a few years.

But one important thing with STEM stuff is, most people who do it have very technical brains, and communicate in highly technical terms. You may have trouble following what they say and conclude you're too stupid for your discipline. In college I had this problem a lot, because I never read the textbook. Turns out if you're missing just one piece of knowledge, often the whole thing stops making sense. But if you have all the required pre-knowledge, it's really simple. It just takes tons of memorization. And time.