Timeline for Where to find (personal) motivation
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| Aug 21, 2014 at 12:41 | comment | added | paul garrett | @William, yes, in various possible wordings, there are two different things, or at least two different extremes on a spectrum, and accidentally trying (in one's mind) to make them be the same thing surely creates stress of several sorts. At the very least, one can try to remind oneself that, for example, there's "the art/science of mathematics", and then there's "the business of mathematics". | |
| Aug 21, 2014 at 3:18 | comment | added | user39719 | Please tell me whether I understand this correctly. Are you saying that there is the essence of mathematics, and there is mathematics, with its many manifestations, uses and practices in the context of our everyday reality, and the two are essentially different? Thus mathematics as a profession, and as a "state of mind", a pure art of sorts, are fundamentally different, even incompatible notions? And mixing the two might lead to the uncomfortable state of mind that the OP's colleague seems to be in? If so, how would you advice to separate the two notions in one's mind? | |
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| Aug 20, 2014 at 23:59 | history | answered | paul garrett | CC BY-SA 3.0 |