Christ! Reading this post on Brain Pickings scared the bejeezus out of me. I realise I am really sick when it comes to “doing” I think there’s hope though. Like Ramon y Cajal suggests … Tackle small problems first, so that if success smiles and strength increases, one may then undertake the great feats of investigation. And that’s what I am doing these days. Lovely post as usual by the amazing Maria Popova and another book for the Antilibrary ...
I don’t know. I grew up saying Maths. But the world around me is increasingly favouring Math. I think I’ll stick to Maths and use Math where I think it’s more apt … like when I say [Math Forge][1]. [1]:
The more I delve into learning Maths, the more I feel like a blacksmith. Life has problems and Maths gives me the tools to solve them. And if I don’t have the tools? I just make new ones using my math forge à la the blacksmith :)
So far so good. I’m finally “getting” trig. Moving on to calculus. Hopefully once I get through that, I will have time to practice regularly. Most surprising part; I’m having fun :)
Started: 2018-03-23 Finished: 2018-04-24 This is not quite book notes, but now with the craziness that is my studies, I don’t have time to write them all down. I still want to catalogue the fact, that I finished it though. This is an amazing book, amazing with a capital A You know you should read the ancients, you know you should read our modern minds, like Taleb and Kahneman and Cialdini and Munger.(You also know you should eat your green leafy vegetables :)) ...
This apparently is my look of intense focus :) My first husky ride. And while I did have to focus and hang on for dear life, it was nearly an hour and a half of so much fun.1 And the huskies were the friendliest doggies, I’ve met! It was a bracing -15°C that day :) ↩︎