" As long as I could connect every new thing I learned to this universe, I had an easy time with math.
And I noticed that classmates who had problems with math weren’t struggling with math; they were
struggling with connections. They were trying to memorize equations, but no one had successfully
shown them how those equations connect with everything they had already learned. They were
doomed "

― Gabriel Wyner , Fluent Forever: How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It