Our readingWhat is a korrent?
Drawn from what Oliver Burkeman and Cal Newport said
mathematics Doing mathematics: proof, conjecture, and what mathematicians want that other fields do not.
Their wordsConsider the possibility that mild discomfort – butterflies in the stomach, a sense of difficulty, a moment of boredom – might simply be the price of doing things you care about.
Where this was said
↗The truth about distractionoliverburkeman.com
All 3 korrents from this piecethis one is 3rd
Their wordsExceptional things — be it ideas, writing, mathematics, or art — require hard work. This, in turn, requires boring stretches during which you ignore a mind pleading with you to seek novel stimuli
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