I guess its kind of obvious now that practice always helps, but for a while, mostly during high school, I used to think that being good at math because you've s

I guess its kind of obvious now that practice always helps, but for a while, mostly during high school, I used to think that being good at math because you've seen similar problems hundreds of before was kind of "cheating" and you weren't really that smart. Instead, you were smart if you managed to do a test/competition really well without doing tons of practice questions. Consequently during math classes I used to sit at the back of the class and play counter strike all day on my laptop. Nobody seemed to care since I'd ace all the tests and still compete for my school in math competitions and stuff. However I completely wrecked my math education, and come university (I skipped last year of high school for uni, there's a standard program for it in my country) I had completely forgotten how to prepare for a math exam and was systematically left further behind with every year Lol. Looking back I still kind of regret my perspective on doing practice problems. In hindsight it was kind of stupid but it was mostly because I thought it was kind of lame that I did well sometimes because I practiced more than other people, whereas some other students seemed to do pretty good without (seemingly) having practiced at all. On the plus side I do feel I learn things a lot faster than much people and am pretty descent at a wider variety of things