Math Pessimism, Edited: Too Slow
'I'm too slow' becomes 'I go slowly through ideas that took humanity centuries.'


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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2016-02-03-math-pessimism-edited-too-slow/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)Transcript
[Before] "I'm no good at math. I'm just too slow."
[After] "I'm ~~no~~ so good at math! I just prefer to go slowly through intellectual achievements that took humanity dozens of centuries the first time 'round."