In my opinion a good mathematician is not necessarily someone who is fast at solving equations. Nor someone who get a right answer first try, but someone who does give up when they get something wrong. Someone who seeks to understand why an answer may be wrong.
Growing up it has been ingrained into us that you have to be fast to be any good at maths, that we have to get the answer right first time. While people say we don't have to be fast or get an answer right, we are told the opposite making it harder for people to get into maths and to enjoy it.
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