>>13456585>you need rest days or some shit?absolutely
I have committed the mistake of reading through theory, skipping the examples details and most of the exercises, and at first i thought i was understanding everything from the theoretical point o f view, and moved forward to next sections, then chapters and so. To find out that i didn't remember even the basics of what I was studied that semester. Had to go back from the beginning and start over again.
You have to exercise, at first working out the examples, then try some easy problems by yourself, at first, in my case, it feels like solving problems with tweezers, and after you gain some confidence you can try some more difficult exercises. Sometimes some problems looks almost impossible to face, let it sink in your mind and try again later (1 or 2 weeks later), that have worked for me the best, I've made exercises that i thought were impossible to do. So the key word at this point is not to loose patience, sometimes you just need to rest your brain.
Sometimes I find myself in a exercises marathon, like solving all section problems (or most of them). I skip the 'trivial' ones when I find I can figure out the path of solution in my head. Maybe doing 2 or 3 of them just to gain a little confidence or to verify myself I'm on the correct path.
Another way of excising I do is to look at the solutions at the back on the book, If the result looks 'interesting' I'll try to get it by myself.
>how do you remedy the second problem if you are self studyingStack exchange, there is for math, physics and so. But people there are assholes like "How you dare to come asking for help with your homework, here we talk about advanced stuff". So the trick is to make your questions look interesting, not just asking for the solution for a problem. Showing what have you tried, or specifying exactly what you don't understand or the way to proceed.
