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I only started thriving in school once I started practicing theory construction in my head.

Hypothesis->test->refine

I’m not sure I could still do it in realtime today. It takes a lot of cycles to do this and reading or pausing videos to process is more my speed now.

I’ve ended up spot tutoring a lot of people who still don’t get it. Having a theory of the system lets you answer their questions where a classmate would not be able to because they’re barely past rote.



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