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Can you give an example of the level where things suddenly become more difficult?
As I said in another post, I struggled quite a bit with early calculus classes, but breezed through later "more difficult" classes that built on them.
Also, I disagree with the math and stats thing. Many of the best statisticians I know have strong grounding in mathematics, as do many of the best data scientists I know.
I hit a wall in my string theory course, after having to apply a lot more effort than expected in a QFT course the year before. Didn't have that issue with GR at all. Well, maybe with some finer points involving algebraic topology, but nothing insurmountable.