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I can totally relate and to this day I describe one of my greatest failures as a manager as analogous to how "easy" math was to me. Until Calc II I really found nothing about math challenging at all. The result of this was that everyone wanted me to tutor them in math. The problem was that I didn't solve math problems like other people did, in fact I had no idea how I did what I did. I just did it. As a result when I tried to teach someone else it was an unmitigated disaster.

Fast forward to the real world, one of my biggest challenges is helping people figure out how to get from A-Z. A is obvious to me. Z is obvious to me (although I'm probably wrong as much as I'm right), but getting someone to understand my reasoning is almost impossible.




This is why I have always found proofs difficult. I just don't know what steps people think are important to spell out but.


Study "false proofs", try to see where they go wrong. This will teach you what details need to be spelled out in detail to easily tell the difference between a false proof and a true proof. You will learn how to demonstrate you have nothing up your sleeves so to speak.


Then spell out all of them, and have someone else tell you when it's become too tedious.




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