> I used the feel the same as you, but then I gave up. One day I was like "screw it, I'm just going to take it for granted". I stopped caring about getting a fe

> I used the feel the same as you, but then I gave up. One day I was like "screw it, I'm just going to take it for granted". I stopped caring about getting a feel for why things happen, just that they do and I know how to calculate them. When that changed I was suddenly free, I didn't have to worry about why things made sense or not anymore. A very important development in my understanding of mathematics was developing an intuition of when something is worth visualizing. Sometimes visualization is extremely helpful. Sometimes it just makes understanding the problem more difficult (looking at you quaternions). > One problem I have often had is that in a long derivation my brain will be so fried on the mathematics that I eventually forget what the terms in the equations actually represent. I'm like "what is q again? oh yeah it's a generalised coordinate". I had a professor who said something along the lines of "a good notation liberates the mind while a poor one clutters it." I suspect he was quoting a famous mathematician (as he was wont to do), but I cannot remember who (Whitehead?).