This is your ego talking. Ignore your ego. Dont worry about how you will do tomorrow, or how you did today. Focus only one what you can improve. Find strategies to do these problems and practice employing them, but dont judge your results. Any time spent comparing yourself to others or to your expectations is a waste of time
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Fun Fact: Ego is a byproduct of prescientific and preintelligent society. Its use now comes solely from self-help books who will repurpose any artifacts of ideology to sell their repackaged stoic dribble. I trust that your journey of "self-improvement" (another keyword revealing your motivations as it is a marketing phrase at this point) is based almost entirely on reading said books.
And wow: just to prove my point, a concept from Atomic Habits.
I hope anyone reading this thread will see that JDance posted that literally the second before my initial post went up.
Here's some wisdom for people reading this thread: these books are the result of hypercapitalism, stirring up deep insecurities within you until your life is just a cosmic horror of new routines, diets and never-actualized goals.
Not to say you shouldn't self-improve, but there is no "secret" to self-improvement. You pick a goal and you work towards it. Anything else is your brain tricking yourself into needing books or more strategy so it can instead pick up cheap dopamine hits through said media.
I think it gets harder after problem #100
Also noticing there must be fewer math experts in your state as you have fewer questions answered and higher state ranking.
I have an average 8 questions per minute while you have a 10
All posts on online forums are just regurgitations of language anyway, but regurgitations of psuedophilosophies or capitalistic junkfood is a lot worse.
Benny this is the math thread - you need to submit your math scores in order to post here. I think you confused it for the creative writing and literary criticism thread.
Is this the math thread? It looks like a self-improvement thread to me.
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There's the old irish parable about the leprechanun, that through religion, wishes to increase his height. He has a strong sense of self-destiny, you see: and the limits of nature seem no match to the limitless nature of himself and his world.
But after years and years of reading and worshipping false gods (originated during catholic oppression), he comes to see himself for what he is: a creation of a reality long gone and out of his control.
You can probably guess how that ends.
Actually I cannot.
I dont get it benny.
An allegory for suicide that was adapted and warped through insinuations as we were in primary school when they told us.
It means that books and passed on wisdom sell truth's that are not grounded in nature. Had the leprechaun worshipped his reality instead, he would have come to see his innate gifts (our teacher said it was a pot of gold, probably correct).
I feel a leprechaun, as a magical creature, actually has a pretty good chance of increasing his height through the power of belief. I'm of course not familiar with the specific magical powers of leprechauns but I believe all mythical beings have a power of self-creation and self-actualization that transcends ours (as lowly human beings, made from mud and bound to it)
The leprechaun commits suicide?