My Ongoing Journey with Statistics

I’m not here because I aced statistics. I’m here because I failed.

I still haven’t passed. I took a 10-week psychology statistics course at university, and I failed. The pace was relentless. The content felt completely inaccessible. Greek letters, symbols, and abstract rules, it felt like I was learning a foreign language. I fell behind and it was impossible to catch up.

I took the rest of the year off to study. I got a private tutor. But I still couldn’t break through. Procrastination, resistance, and a sense of being completely overwhelmed kept holding me back. I wasn’t just failing the subject, I was failing to connect with it.

But here I am.

Because I realised that this struggle, the frustration, the resistance, the lack of progress, is exactly what so many students face. Statistics doesn’t come easy to most of us, especially if you’ve never studied math before. Unlike other subjects where you can scrape by on intuition, statistics demands a different approach: structured learning, repetition, and real understanding.

I’m building a program, a form of positive procrastination in a way, that addresses why people fail statistics and how they can finally succeed. I want to find the path for myself to pass. I have ideas that may not make it to development, but they are important concepts. I’d like to make progress visible with milestones and rewards, because when learning is this abstract, you need tangible wins to stay motivated. I’m also creating a community where students can celebrate their progress together because no one should feel like they’re fighting this battle alone.

This isn’t a story about triumph, yet. It’s about the process. The grind. The reality is that sometimes, we fail. But we keep going.

I haven’t passed statistics. But I’m not done. I’m still here. And so are you.

Let’s get through this, together.