pythag011 wrote:

NOTE: In general I've found learning math to be incredibly similar to learning starcraft and learning how to play ultimate frisbee, so don't discredit this post based on the fact that I'm drawing parallels from starcraft to math.

Some things I've found:

Basically, whenever you're doing an approach and you don't think you can get further, try to figure out what's obstructing your progress, and you can use that to help build later approaches.

Also,

So one day.

There was this game called Starcraft.

anyways in starcraft there were these things called macro and apm and etc

and the way you would improve them was by consciously trying to improve them

so you would focus on apm in a game

how does this apply to math

so being able to make connections is pretty useful in math

so when you're doing stuff consciously try to connect stuff. and for example, when reading something try to connect it to stuff as much as possible. It doesn't even have to make sense. You can be like, hey this word sounds like this other word which implies this other word which sounds like this other word which makes me think of this word, so somehow we manage to connect it. The connections do not have to make sense. But you should not randomly be like, hey this piece of paper is like a hyena. It probably is. But you're just randomly saying it is.

Anyways, don't become insane from doing the above please. Don't take it too far I guess.

Anyways, the above was by far the sketchiest piece of advice I have ever heard. But it explains a ton of questions and seems to work so I'm going to assume it works.

The point of this is that basically, you can kinda train creativity in a way. Creativity is kinda the ability to create connections.

Maybe doing this is blasphemy to creativity, and like creativity should not be something that is trained. Hmm I'm probably overaffected by the random poems I have to read.

Man I want to end this post with some random poem, but I don't know where I can find one

Someone give me something that fits it.

From looking in a poetry book, I have found:

s(

these out of in
finite no
where,who;arrive s
trollingly

:alight whitely and

)now
flakes:are;guests,of t
wi
light

t

-e. e. cummings

Starcraft.