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No but in high school nobody told me how cool math was and instead had me calculate a bunch of stuff for no reason

then i finally learned that every single thing you learn in undergrad math is a specialized instance of a really beautiful and cool generalization

Then I learned about group theory and my mind was blown by how....vast and general a mathematical theory could get. There's the series that got me going on group theory (first run through I understood maybe 10% of it)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwTQdOop-nU&list=PLwV-9DG53NDxU337smpTwm6sef4x-SCLv

Then I wanted to understand physics at the fundamental level and you really do need to do the work to understand what some of these things mean and how they relate to reality.