Timeline for Cures for mathematician's block (as in writer's block)
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| Sep 30, 2014 at 2:41 | comment | added | isomorphismes | Does it need to be science? I think it could be even further afield—history, art, anything that renews one's sense of curiosity and wonder at the world… | |
| Nov 7, 2009 at 23:21 | comment | added | Nicholas Jackson | It's not the teaching itself that I find tiring, or being forced to rethink stuff that I learned several years ago - indeed, I find both of those aspects quite rewarding. However, I do find actually standing up in front of a load of people and talking for an hour both physically and mentally tiring, and I usually need to have a bit of a rest before I'm able to focus on mathematics again. | |
| Nov 7, 2009 at 17:40 | comment | added | Jose Capco | That's funny.. as when I used to be a new graduate student.. I found the exact opposite effects. I didn't had any teaching load, and I wished to hell I had some as this could motivate me new ideas. I thought (still think) teaching even boring math subjects everything with some new perspective would help :) | |
| Nov 7, 2009 at 14:47 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by Anton Geraschenko | ||
| Nov 7, 2009 at 12:21 | comment | added | Nicholas Jackson | Thanks for this. I often find myself in the first situation - after I've spent an hour teaching first-year undergraduates about analysis or linear algebra, I'm too tired to focus on any research. Maybe the solution is to go somewhere quiet and read a non-mathematical book or pop home for half an hour to do some piano practice (conveniently, I live about five minutes' cycle ride from campus). | |
| Nov 7, 2009 at 8:32 | history | answered | Jose Brox | CC BY-SA 2.5 |