And just like lifting weights, you will lose it when you stop doing it While this is 100% true, I hate putting it that way because it makes weight training (an

And just like lifting weights, you will lose it when you stop doing it While this is 100% true, I hate putting it that way because it makes weight training (and mathematics) sound like drudgery. The way I like to think about it is that if you want to stay strong, you have to push against resistance on a constant basis. It's the same thing with math. You have to exercise that part of your brain with algebraic resistance.