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Love math, but not a genius

Anonymous Mon 14 Dec 02:22:11 2020 No.12462471 View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>12462496 >>12462504 >>12462620 >>12462809

Reading all.about gauss and others while I struggle understanding basic concepts make me suicidal.

I don't even crave sex anymore i just uniornically want intelligence.

I feel like an ape, i am also ethnic, so seeing how obly whites wnd sometimes asians are the smart ones makes me feel like racists are right.

I really envy math geniuses, i could used math so much.

Inb4 just study bro, i don't want to, i use primitive math from scratch cause using advanced math would be like an ape using a laptop.

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Anonymous Mon 14 Dec 2020 02:31:51 No.12462496 Report

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>>12462471
Believe me, I know how you feel. Here's a piece of advice: the more you study the more secure you'll get. I'm at the point where I can BTFO a lot of undergraduates with easy and elegant answers to their questions. I still realize that I'm not a genius nor will I ever be, I am just not bothered by that as much as before because I feel some security in knowing I have real potential to significantly improve my math skills based on the fact that I already did improve so much. You can too.
Also you should try to adopt a more reductionist attitude. Not necessarily in your metaphysics, just the day-to-day things, make it part of how you approach it. Your bedazzlement at genius demonstrates a tendency to think mystically. Instead you should be asking yourself, what is there really that they did that I couldn't have done? Look at their actual mathematics, concrete things. When you look at them enough, you will realize that it's often actually quite natural and you could have done it, and if you do this enough this will become your natural assumption, you will not feel as threatened by math.
Tim Gowers has some cool lectures about this stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLxbIXwpMes
His position is that mathematics and proofs are largely a mechanical process, and whenever we're bedazzled by genius in reality it's just a lot of mechanical and (retroactively) obvious steps put together.
There was another lecture about this that I can't find on youtube right now (perhaps they deleted it). Anyway, I suggest you look at his videos and writings for general audiences.
And yeah, the more you worry about actual math, the less insecure you will feel because you will keep your mind busy with actually productive stuff. Also don't chew what you can't swallow. Pick material at the level that you're comfortable with, remember that you want to learn and not demonstrate how cool you are.
Good luck.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 14 Dec 2020 02:34:42 No.12462504 Report

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>>12462471
>struggle understanding basic concepts
Which basic concept are you currently struggling to understand? Be precise, I will explain it to you.

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Anonymous Mon 14 Dec 2020 03:03:24 No.12462620 Report

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>>12462471
The more you do math the better you get at it. Simple as. The geniuses are only faster at the "getting better" part.

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Anonymous Mon 14 Dec 2020 04:21:14 No.12462809 Report

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says whites are smart and asians are just sometimes
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