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#226 – Jo Boaler: How to Learn Math
Lex Fridman Podcast
The Intuition Is a Good Time for Your Brain
I love to value what's hard in maths. We know that when you struggle, it's actually a really good time for your brain. You want to be struggling when you're thinking about things. So if it's hard to think intuitively about something, that's probably areally good time foryour brain. I used to work with somebody called Sebastian Thrun, who's a great sort of mathematician. He talked about how he intuitively worked out what the problem was but then it took him three weeks to show it mathematically. It's kind of different from going through that long mathematical process of proving it, but so important.
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