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I went back to university. I wouldn't have had the motivation to do this outside of the structured environment of academia and, critically, the pressure of exams and grades that come with school. A huge amount of my motivation comes from the fear of "getting a bad grade". Without the fear of a bad grade, I definitely would have given up learning math as soon as I got bored.


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