Balan, I suggest you study a lot of existing circuits and descriptions of their operation (there are many electronics tutorials and examples online), in order to get a feel for how components are generally used and interact and to become accustomed to reading schematics.

 

I think it's more than just not liking math.
It's that they find math difficult, and thus will do the significant effort to learn it only if seems absolutely necessary.
Those that enjoy math and find it relatively easy to learn can sometimes have difficulty understanding that.

I'm very technically minded and readily understand circuit operation, and have a good aptitude for circuit design, but my mind resists using higher math, perhaps because it seems I have to use every available neuron in my brain to do it.

Hi,

Yes i agree, there are a lot of angles of view here. But i believe one of them is psychological where the individual it convinced that they can not do math very well and therefore stay away from it and therefore never becomes proficient. At some point they may have had a bad encounter with math maybe at a time when it was not being taught correctly or some other temporary thing (see other posts here).

The reason i bring this point of view to light here is because i believe that there are certain brain functions that handle similar types of tasks, and one of them is mechanical, and that translates to other types of tasks like math. I cant remember all there is to this now, but the short story is that anyone that can handle mechanical tasks (gears, pulleys, etc.) can handle math. And to put that another way, if they can handle mechanical tasks then the part of the brain that does that is the same part of the brain that does math. If there is a psychological block however, they will be convinced they can not do math even though they can do mechanical tasks. That block could very well have come from a bad experience with math, from some bad teacher or some other incident.
I was lucky i ran into a very good math teacher early on so i learned to not be afraid of math. Dont get me wrong here though it may still take some time for me to read and understand a new way of doing things, and it takes time and energy, but at least i am not afraid or not convinced i'll never be able to do it.

Maybe you should think back and see if you can figure out the first time you felt that math was too much of a pain to be bothered with. Of course i dont have all the answers unfortunately, i can only give out what i think might apply for the case at the time i read about it. Humans are very complicated so there is more to it than that

 

Maybe you should think back and see if you can figure out the first time you felt that math was too much of a pain to be bothered with.

No, you still don't quite understand my position.
I have no innate dislike of math. I just find it difficult.
I managed to get through college algebra, trigonometry, and a couple of semesters of calculus, but it took every ounce of my brain-power (which isn't all that great to begin with ).
I am fairly good with mechanical concepts as well as electronics but that doesn't translate to math for me.
So I think math abilities may be somewhat uncorrelated with other technical abilities.
It would be interesting to know if advanced mathematicians tend to have abilities much beyond the norm in other technical areas.

 

No, you still don't quite understand my position.
I have no innate dislike of math. I just find it difficult.
I managed to get through college algebra, trigonometry, and a couple of semesters of calculus, but it took every ounce of my brain-power (which isn't all that great to begin with ).
I am fairly good with mechanical concepts as well as electronics but that doesn't translate to math for me.
So I think math abilities may be somewhat uncorrelated with other technical abilities.
It would be interesting to know if advanced mathematicians tend to have abilities much beyond the norm in other technical areas.

Hi again,

Ok no problem.

There has been a growing trend to decompartmentalize the brain functionality whereas in the past it was the opposite, that's why i had to default to the human being so complex and hard to understand. In the past it would have been easy to say that all mathematicians can do mechanical stuff, and that would be true for the most part i think, but it would not cover every single case because the more recent ideas suggest that the brain works as a whole as well as in sections, and amazingly, even linked to the native language of the subject. That means even though there may be trends every person is different.
So yes, it could be that you just have to make due with what you can do and cant do, but actually we all have to do that.

I do have to add though that i admire most of what you've shown in forums so you cant be doing that bad !