Great question! I always tell my students that math courses - especially something like Discrete Math with abstract ideas and proof writing - are great for improving your logical thinking skills, your precision with details, and even your writing in other academic disciplines. Math like this helps you think in different ways, and see the world with a different perspective. It even teaches you perseverance, because it can be hard at first! But that doesn't mean you're bad at it, it means that you're thinking about a difficult problem and the more you do so, the more fluency and ease you'll build for working with challenging problems in the future. Even if you end up in a career that is not outwardly mathematical or scientific, the logical reasoning skills you build in Discrete Math and other proof-based math courses will be incredibly useful to you.
