Not a Mathematician myself, but I totally agree with him regarding the benefits of choosing Mathematics as the career. My father is a Mathematician with small

Not a Mathematician myself, but I totally agree with him regarding the benefits of choosing Mathematics as the career. My father is a Mathematician with small fame. He was obsessed with Mathematics when he was a kid. In fact, Mathematics was the single thing that helped him to move through the political turmoil during his first 30 years of life. I'll also quote a paragraph from Cixin Liu's "Ball lighting". It's related. > "Of course I know!" Dad took another half glass of wine, then turned to me, "Actually, son, living a wonderful life is not difficult. Listen to Dad: choose a universally recognized world problem, preferably a mathematical one that only requires a piece of paper and a pencil, like the Goldbach Conjecture or Fermat's Last Theorem, or a pure natural philosophy problem that doesn't even need paper and pencil, like the origin of the universe. Dedicate yourself entirely to it, focus solely on the process, not the outcome. In the unconscious focus, a lifetime will pass. What people often refer to as a 'pursuit' is just this. Or, conversely, make earning money your sole goal, always thinking about how to make money without considering what to do with it. By the time you die, you can, like Grandet, hold a pile of gold coins and say, 'Ah, so warm...' Therefore, the key to a wonderful life is what you can become passionate about. For example, me—" Dad pointed to the small watercolor paintings placed all around the room. They were all very traditional in technique, well-painted but lacking any real inspiration. The paintings reflected the electric light from outside the window, like a group of flickering screens, "I became passionate about painting, even though I know I can't become Van Gogh."