Im a high school student from Spain. I have always enjoyed reading and humanities based subjects (History, spanish, philosophy...) but I always found that I cannot express Ideas, or topics from a book im reading, a text we have to analyze for class, etc.
It seems to me that I am always stuck in the superficial idea of what the author is telling me. And, if im lucky enough to find the depth of the idea, I cannot seem to express it correctly. I have always tried to find ways to change how I think or write to try to improve but it seems I cant. I have done, and I am still doing, all the regular advice: read more books and add variety to them ( I have read classics, non fiction, fantasy history etc), I keep a journal in which I try to articulate my thoughts and write them, I sometimes write narritives of fictional characters I imagine. I do all this and all the usual practices we do in school to make us learn this ability.
What am I failling on? How is that even doing all this I get a low grade in Spanish, philosophy and so because I can't expresse myself correctly? Maybe I have been following the wrong path all along