April 10th, 2008. My life changed

April 10th, 2008. I stayed in the library for 8 hours. It's the first try to see if no distraction and restrict my desire can give me a boost on life.
Answer is yes.
I had off from school.
Due to some US history thing, I have to be at school at 6pm. But I'm not getting a ride at that time. So I go to school at 9am and stay till 6.at 10
The library opens at 10. I went in there, read some of my Notice from AMS. Then I read A New Kind Of Science.
Some stuff it said really hit me. I had a vision that the world is a computer. Mathematics is manipulation of symbols. It have a good view point. It really, make everything clear, include my small unsure part about Gödel's incompleteness theorems, and consistency, completeness and universal.
How sad, there are things in this world can not be proven.

Then, I did some math.

It's a very productive day! The most productive day ever.
It strengthen the idea to put myself inside a condition with no distraction.
So it will keep me away from everything I like more than math.

I did really bad on my ARML practice. Epic Fail.
One of the person there is a USAMO person.
I see a huge difference between me and him.


It is what we call a

kuzew's picture

It is what we call a epiphany.

Yes. It is. I'm failing

Mgccl's picture

Yes. It is.
I'm failing English. 47 average.

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