There's nothing wrong with that. It's also the normal reaction when you are presented with more advanced concepts, like relativity and quantum mechanics.
It's just a matter of accepting that facts and your instinct can diverge... and it means that your instinct is wrong!
Which is not to say that you are stupid, no way! On the contrary, it's a sign that you have embarked on an adventure to discover how the world really works, which is beyond what evolution may have imprinted in you DNA in order to survive daily struggles.
> I end up wondering how futile all of it seems because in reality I'll never be able to apply this stuff the way it's being presented.
That's a common misconception by non-physicists: that years of advanced studies can be compared with trivial experience in everyday life, as if the value of a senior software developer could be judged by how fast he can install a new version of Visual Studio.
Funnily, when I was in high-school and made a "trailer" for some programming lectures I was attending, one of the lines in it I meant to sound "epic" was "You must use the new version of Visual Studio!"
There's nothing wrong with that. It's also the normal reaction when you are presented with more advanced concepts, like relativity and quantum mechanics.
It's just a matter of accepting that facts and your instinct can diverge... and it means that your instinct is wrong!
Which is not to say that you are stupid, no way! On the contrary, it's a sign that you have embarked on an adventure to discover how the world really works, which is beyond what evolution may have imprinted in you DNA in order to survive daily struggles.
> I end up wondering how futile all of it seems because in reality I'll never be able to apply this stuff the way it's being presented.
That's a common misconception by non-physicists: that years of advanced studies can be compared with trivial experience in everyday life, as if the value of a senior software developer could be judged by how fast he can install a new version of Visual Studio.