Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Math's Biggest Lie" video.

I made it through PhD in math, but I don't consider myself to be especially gifted. I'm better than the average person at math, but I'm average to below-average at math amongst my peers. The thing that carried me was that I worked more hours than any of my peers (because I had to). Moving up to grad school from a pretty limited undergraduate curriculum (They were stretching things just to provide one semester of abstract algebra, while students at the university get an entire year.). I really had to grind to get up to snuff. My first year in grad school was absolutely brutal. Most people who are really good at something don't consider themselves especially talented. They know that the hours they put in.
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