What changed for me vs school days is that I don't have long blocks of time to work on a problem, so a tricky problem is likely to be skipped. I had to actively force myself to not skip hard things, meaning some days all I did was spend 10 minutes on the problem, find the wrong answer, and go to bed to try again tomorrow. Eventually I get em and move on much happier.
Unlike school days you have years to do this right.
OP, I recommend you take parent's latter points to heart. I (and likely you) need to re-learn how to learn in this phase of our lives, vs what we were used to as younguns whose entire job was just learn.
What changed for me vs school days is that I don't have long blocks of time to work on a problem, so a tricky problem is likely to be skipped. I had to actively force myself to not skip hard things, meaning some days all I did was spend 10 minutes on the problem, find the wrong answer, and go to bed to try again tomorrow. Eventually I get em and move on much happier.
Unlike school days you have years to do this right.
OP, I recommend you take parent's latter points to heart. I (and likely you) need to re-learn how to learn in this phase of our lives, vs what we were used to as younguns whose entire job was just learn.