I started taking an interest in machine learning and AI about a year and a half ago. I don't consider myself any kind of genius (although I'm reasonably intelligent), and I was terrible at math in school--to the point where I'd come to the conclusion that I simply "wasn't good at math".
After a good deal of reading, trial and error, and banging my head against the wall, I've managed to get myself to pretty much the cutting edge of ML research as it applies to neural networks. There's quite a bit of math involved, and it would have been easy for me to write it off as "too hard" in the beginning. However, I'm glad I stuck with it because I'm actually using it for some pretty neat applications.
My point being, if you have an interest in something that seems like you have to be a genius to be good at it, don't let that stop you because it probably isn't true.
After a good deal of reading, trial and error, and banging my head against the wall, I've managed to get myself to pretty much the cutting edge of ML research as it applies to neural networks. There's quite a bit of math involved, and it would have been easy for me to write it off as "too hard" in the beginning. However, I'm glad I stuck with it because I'm actually using it for some pretty neat applications.
My point being, if you have an interest in something that seems like you have to be a genius to be good at it, don't let that stop you because it probably isn't true.