How To Learn Math? — Notes To My Younger Self
I wish someone had told me this when I was younger!
As someone who works with mathematics on a daily basis, I constantly reflect upon what I now know about math that I wish I knew earlier. I know that hindsight is 20–20. But still, I think it is human nature to self-reflect and it feels unnatural to resist it.
Even if my younger self cannot realistically profit from this knowledge, if someone else can, it would be a net-positive outcome, right?
When I originally imagined how I would communicate with my younger self, I imagined myself writing notes to pass along. But then, I caught myself working with silly boundaries in a silly imaginary scenario.
Why does communication with my younger self have to be one-way? What if my younger self could communicate back to me?
If my younger self did indeed have the possibility to communicate with the current me, I am pretty certain he would sceptically ask the following question:
“So, what do you do now exactly? Why should I listen to you?
And that’s precisely where I would like to begin.
The Present
Good question, younger me! You don’t have to listen to me. I’m just an ordinary person…
