🧵 How many people are actually intrinsically motivated by math?
Anonymous at Thu, 14 Mar 2024 14:46:55 UTC No. 16076633
No matter how much I like math, that will never seem to outweigh the gruelingness of actually doing it enough to get me to do it on its own. And most of the time I don't feel that strongly about it anyway. I can see like 1% of mathematicians actually liking math enough, but surely when most people talk about how math is so heckin beautiful they're just saying words and don't actually do math for that reason right?
Anonymous at Thu, 14 Mar 2024 14:56:06 UTC No. 16076717
>>16076633
it's a very specific type of mental masturbation.
Anonymous at Thu, 14 Mar 2024 15:00:41 UTC No. 16076756
>>16076717
how do I do it?
Anonymous at Thu, 14 Mar 2024 15:08:10 UTC No. 16076805
>>16076633
Quite a few at high levels are "intrinsically" motivated insomuch as they have chosen their own field and subfield based on what they themselves like the most.
If you mean people who like math in your middle school class probably not many and those that do just enjoy the fact they're good at it.
Anonymous at Thu, 14 Mar 2024 15:21:28 UTC No. 16076860
>>16076633
People who enjoy doing math don't enjoy it because it's le heckin beautiful and profound, they enjoy it because solving puzzles is fun. One of the key designs that makes a game rewarding is the ability to learn new things and then apply them to do things you couldn't do before, and math nails that.
I think in terms of career success enjoyment is not the most important motivator though, because a lot of the work you have to do to succeed as a researcher is not the fun parts of math. The people who do best in academia are the achievement collector personalities who find it satisfying to go to any length for the dopamine hit of the +20 gamerscore bing.
Anonymous at Thu, 14 Mar 2024 15:57:27 UTC No. 16077042
>>16076860
They definitely do think there's something beautiful and special about otherwise why not play with 1000 other types of puzzles. Hell, any decent adult paying job required you to solve lots of complex problems
Anonymous at Thu, 14 Mar 2024 16:02:41 UTC No. 16077059
>>16076633
>>16076717
>>16076756
I hate this stupid fuck (pic related)
But I do enjoy doing some meaningful calculations like chemical bonds of atoms inbetween chemicals
Cult of Passion at Thu, 14 Mar 2024 16:16:14 UTC No. 16077107
Its literally the core of every single field of study in every university on the fucking planet. 100%.
Poetry=Math (Aurally or Literarily, you will not escape alive...)
Chemistry=Math
Physics=Math
Music=Math
Enigneering=Math
Video Games=Math
Psychology=Math (Love is a vector, side length 1, expressed electrochemically via physiological convergence....)
EMOTIONS=Phenomenology=Biology=Chem
EVERY SECOND OF EVERY DAY I CALCULATE THE DIMENSIONS OF HEAVEN.
Anonymous at Thu, 14 Mar 2024 16:48:05 UTC No. 16077196
>>16076633
I'm motivated by annoyance.
There are tons of PhD theses in, say, philosophy that a reasonably educated layperson can read easily, but math and physics theses are a brutal reminder that I spent too much of my youth playing vidya and shitposting on the Internet. I'm annoyed that I don't understand them. Compounding my annoyance is the fact that I've always had extremely good facility with math (getting consistent high distinctions in the math classes I took as part of an unrelated degree before dropping out) but refused to use the blessings that Allah had given me.
Anonymous at Thu, 14 Mar 2024 20:51:55 UTC No. 16077729
>>16076633
It's one of the few things that truly interests me a this point. It's the only thing that genuinely makes me feel smarter after doing it, and studying while listening to music is nice. Makes me kind of sad that math in the US doesn't get interesting until after calculus, and by then most people are filtered
Anonymous at Thu, 14 Mar 2024 22:30:01 UTC No. 16077960
>>16077196
I sort of come close to this but any rage/annoyance doesn't last long enough and still isn't strong enough to motivate me actually doing math consistently
Anonymous at Thu, 14 Mar 2024 22:50:01 UTC No. 16077995
>>16076860
>they enjoy it because solving puzzles is fun.
Midwit. Solving puzzles is not fun. Midwits love to burden their minds with abstract problems to distract from life which is why they love sudoko, cross words, math problems, and jigsaw games. It's a burdensome activity in all cases that yields no reward other than it's cessation. The perceived reward from this works on high dopamine low intelligence minds which is why it's neurotic high energy types that love it and see nothing wrong with doing hours of math homework and still have energy for other things. The high dopamine neurotransmission stems from having a smaller brain so it's able to be put to use with less energy. An intelligent person has a larger brain with neurons less tightly packed which makes these activities arduous. The small brains also suffer less from indulging in high dopamine expenditure activities like jacking off or having sex and will continue on their merry way doing heckin math problems. High IQ big brains will experience abolishment of motivation following sexual acts and will fall asleep or do very little low energy passive activities after orgasm.
Anonymous at Thu, 14 Mar 2024 23:52:17 UTC No. 16078201
>>16077995
how the fuck are high IQ people supposed to use their intelligence to contribute to society then?
Anonymous at Fri, 15 Mar 2024 01:07:49 UTC No. 16078336
>>16078201
It's simple. They don't. Why would they contribute to a society that doesn't contribute anything to them?