My math career turned a corner when I started exercising in college. I would take flash cards of all the formulas I needed to memorize and just burn through th

My math career turned a corner when I started exercising in college. I would take flash cards of all the formulas I needed to memorize and just burn through them on my runs. I found that that was one of the best situations for me to learn the tools I needed to approach problems. It was kind of by accident. I knew I needed to memorize the formulas, but I couldn't find a situation where I could sit down and do them without becoming anxious and distracting myself. On a run, there is no alternative. The eventual runner's high helped me memorize things even more, and I found I'd associate the mental high that comes with working on a math problem for a long time with a runner's high. I'm super exited to share this wisdom with my kids. I wish I knew this secret when I was in high school.