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Befriending mathematics again

  Mathematics is not often depicted from the individual mental/psychological perspective, in full spectrum, with a monologue of meta perspective. The hard questions comes to my mind. Why do most people give up when facing intellectual or cognitive discomfort. Actually, how do I describe this matter accurately? Can it be done to such a degree that it matters to a  significant amount of people? (Sorry about indentation.. will fix later.. working with one hand..) I think parts of advancing you mathematical proficiency with regards to this internal matter has to do with the comfort zone. I think an effective strategy in many endevors of learning and increased ability has to do with being able to persevere at a correct level of discomfort so as to allow for increase of ability through neurogenic adaptations, actual rewiring and growth.  An other aspect has to do with mathematics itself. Which is endurance, patience and the willingness to stick with a problem and work though it...

Constant change and the perception of exploration

  I find that my life is an explorative adventure. I explore not just the external world. But the internal world. I explore the platonic world that could be seen to be outside of both this external and internal world. The platonic world is independent of the internal world. I feel, I should define the building blocks of this thinking out loud monologue to make things less ambiguous. Defining the internal world as the perceived world or mental world. This is more complicated than it may sound.   It is not independent of the external world. The external world being defined as a physical world that exists independent of perception. To some degree this is a philosophical discussion where there is degrees of arbitrarity or bias in the way we reason about this. Us reasoning about is involves cognition and mental processes such as awareness and neurophysiological interaction of the physical external world as input. There are further questions that needs to be considered. Where does t...