I am no math whiz but I did have one road to Damascus moment that helped me feel less daunted. Proofs of theorems can be very intimidating. With a lot of effort

I am no math whiz but I did have one road to Damascus moment that helped me feel less daunted. Proofs of theorems can be very intimidating. With a lot of effort I might eventually be able to understand and reproduce a proof. However I'd think that the mind that could come up with such a proof in the first place must be orders of magnitude smarter as some of intermediate steps would seem so unintuitive. As in what possessed him to try that route? But what you have to remember that what you're seeing can be the result of years of effort, trial and error that eventually gets tidied up into a narrative that's analagous to sticking your arm into a haystack and picking out the needle in one smooth action. It would help people a lot if this was pointed out more by teachers I think.