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This reminds me of how Terence Tao almost failed his orals at Princeton. Turns out even the best in the field need to spend lots of time doing hard work. https://web.math.princeton.edu/generals/tao_terence https://web.math.princeton.edu/generals/tao_terence https://www.ams.org/journals/notices/202007/rnoti-p1007.pdf https://www.ams.org/journals/notices/202007/rnoti-p1007.pdf (less technical)