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 thoroughly and systematically and not abandon the path too early.

The reason, among others, being that of the structure of mathematics itself. It builds upon itself. Therefor How far you get with a structure requires you to have built its foundations well.

A structure well build is a tool in itself. When exhaustively or extensively used, to a level where a loss of fruitful approaches seems emptied is the time to search to find new structures to learn or build to see how things may fit to form a new or modified or extended tool to solve a difficult or perhaps seemingly impenetrable problem.

Prestige, dishonesty or ego are other qualities of personality that hinders personal progress within the mathematical ability domain.


To illustrate this just watch a childs naive fascination with the workings of the world fictive or real.

Including mathematical knowledge aquiring. Before education destroys the natural qualities of a healthy mind of a child, all the prerequisites to a fairly high ability of mathematical ability is there already to develop. Without the prejudice and with honest imaginatory inquisitive curiosity with a natural instinctive desire to learn, play, explore and discover.


It is clear that a few of us find some way to preserve a fair bit of this natural quality to further develop our abilities into adulthood and sometimes even throughout life, whether through sheer luck, though will, though fortunate disability of being a grown up or through awareness by meta cognition and insight, to such a degree that great things can be accomplished by whoever masters this concern.


This is my reflections of todays first hours.

I am in the midst of these internal matters while challenging my mathematical understanding and ability

with the purpose to achieving something that gives me more than respect and self respect in particular.


I certainly have a chip on my shoulder!

Is that bad?


 

 

 


 

 

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