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You're significantly overestimating how a) easy and b) enjoyable the average person finds math-related subjects. Most people don't get past algebra.
I think a better option would be to gain a gut-level understanding of comparative advantage, and how much to value your time, so that you can get paid for what you do best, and outsource what you're bad at or find boring to other, more competent and enthusiastic people.
In my head, I was assuming motivation, edited to clarify.
Yeah I know, that's why I commented. Even basic facility in proof based math is an extremely powerful mental technology, as I tried to say. I would not recommend calculus. I am talking about combinatorics or graph theory, or discrete math in general, where you can see the basic building blocks of proofs and proof strategies. This is worth years of effort.
Maybe proficiency in proof-based math is not a cause of mental superiority, but an indicator?