Many very successful mathematicians “only had a few tricks up their sleeves” when they developed their life’s work. They reused these “tricks” over and over. D

Many very successful mathematicians “only had a few tricks up their sleeves” when they developed their life’s work. They reused these “tricks” over and over. Don’t feel like you have to know everything. I’ve never been more satisfied (and validated) when I have achieve a great solution to a problem, only to find out that I’ve re-discovered a theorem. You’d think this would be a waste of time, but actually it leads to a sudden explosion of knowledge and gives insight into the edge cases you wouldn’t have thought of without a lifetime of effort.