AnyoneCanDoIt

s trying to get me to do something dangerous, and starts talking fast, I assume it's basically suppressive fire for thought. If I were to explain why it's a bad idea in their pitch and tone I'd sound like a maniac, but they can talk as fast as they want because they are relying on tradition and intuition, not complicated reasoning. "Come on, it will be fun" is easier to say fast then "I literally know a guy who was very experienced, who tried this, and died". The only defense I know of is to not care what they think or how you look, and have nothing to prove, especially not to yourself. 4. Never assume any task is too simple and easy to need a plan. If you give me a bucket of balls and ask me to count them, I'm going to pull out a counter app. That 10% of the time I lose count before getting to 10 is embarrassing enough to be worth the trouble to avoid.

y historical math related stuff that I find interesting. I can't tell you how to derive or prove Euler's equation , but you don't need to know math to understand the emotional impact from a humanities perspective, and be amazed that all those constants fit together like that, and that someone could discover it. Ultimately, I think traditional math education has it totally right. My life would be so much better if I knew it, because there's jobs that seem to require exactly what they tech in math class. It's not directly useful for non STEM types, but the idea seems to be give everyone a head start since so many do want STEM jobs. I think you really do have to get to the being able to do proofs level to make use of it in the real innovative applications. The common everyday applications math people like to cite can usually have a dedicated software package. It's not like we still need to add two numbers on paper. If you want to build something, we have RealThunder's FreeCAD. Excel's Goal Seek and CAS systems do the stuff people say we will use algebra for. But if your in tech eventually you run into the wall and need to do something like a Kalman filter or calculate stresses in a bridge and you're screwed.