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I wasn’t making an analogy. Instead, I was providing a counterexample. Believe it or not, there are people out there that find math and science to be easier, and your experiences of these subjects are not the same as everyone else’s, as per the example I gave previously. Similarly, the students that advance far in the USAMO/IMO/Putnam/etc competitions probably roll their eyes at the math problems in classes that most STEM majors take, but it is quite probable that many of them wouldn’t be as successful acting or playing a musical instrument.</p>