Terence Tao

I mean, we need people like that.

Can you speak to it?

Like what, in terms of like the, you like the collaborative.

I like moving on from a problem if it's giving too much difficulty.

Got it.

But you need the people who have the tenacity and the fearlessness.

You know, I've collaborated with people

People like that where I want to give up because the first approach that we tried didn't work and the second one didn't approach.

But they're convinced and they have the third, fourth, and the fifth of which works.

And I have to use my words.

Okay, I didn't think this was going to work, but yes, you were right all along.

Yeah, it works for me.

Yeah, I mean, there are also people who are very productive and they focus very deeply on, yeah.

I think everyone has to find their own workflow.

Like, one thing which is a shame in mathematics is that we have mathematics, there's sort of a one-size-fits-all approach to teaching mathematics.

And, you know, so we have a certain curriculum and so forth.

I mean, you know, maybe, like, if you do math competitions or something, you get a slightly different experience.

But, yeah.

I think many people, they don't find their native math language until very late, or usually too late, so they stop doing mathematics, and they have a bad experience with a teacher who's trying to teach them one way to do mathematics, and they don't like it.

My theory is that evolution has not given us a math center of a brain directly.