Replace Your Addiction With Math

by Justin Skycak (@justinskycak) on

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Imagine how advanced civilization would be if math addiction were normalized.

Why spend a day getting wasted on alcohol when you can go get wasted by grinding math problems until your brain is mush?

Seriously, you can even get high on math by following these 3 steps:

  • Step 1: Grind problems until your brain is mush.
  • Step 2: Watch a math video that's out of your depth but has pretty animations.
  • Step 3: Philosophize, try to make sense of what you just saw.

You won’t have the background for a proper understanding, and your working memory will be too taxed to keep your logic on the rails, and your brain mush will make for a good “association stew,” so you’ll end up trying to bridge the gap in your understanding by making weird associations.

(But realize that steps 2 and 3 are not productive to learning – you can’t count them towards your actual study time.)


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