Hard Work = Good Grades

Is this shit a meme?

nice catto.

No, but it's not the whole story either. You could be the hardest most wetback slave worker and still fail because you don't know what's going on. In other words, you have to work to understand and develop ideas in your own way.

It depends. If you write a bad program and have it loop one million times, it won't get better results than a bad program that only looped ten times, meaning the amount of work performed isn't the only factor in your return on investment.

as long as you aren't clinically retarded

So it depends on how I study?

It depends in part on your starting aptitude. It's possible to have a shit aptitude for learning and even if you do everything you're told and spend hours studying you'll still fail because you aren't smart. Alternatively it's possible to have a high enough aptitude to where you can blow off the things you're told to do and still do well enough to pass.

I can do the latter. But I won't get As.

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Hard work is obviously important but learning how to learn really is key. Mathematical aptitude requires thought. I'll repeat that. Mathematical aptitude requires thought. What is it to think? To think is not the same as just blindly doing lots of exercises. To think means you actively wonder about how something works. Do you really understand what is happening when you do long division, for example? Do you really understand what is happening when you add the exponents when multiplying like variables? Do you actually understand anything about why math works? This contextual information is fundamentally different than merely knowing the "how." One can know "how" to take the derivative of a curve, and still have absolutely no idea what it means or why it worked. To understand such things requires "thought," and a lot of people miss that point entirely.