the thing nobody tells you if you’re learning mathematics alone is that it’s okay to spend ten minutes reading and thinking about a skngle sentence. it’s not just okay but encouraged. densely packed ideas are the norm there
the approach that’s working out for me so far is doing two reads. one where i skip over at any minor inconvenience and another where i don’t proceed until I understand 100%
the first time i read Tao’s Analysis i did it in two days. but i’ve been doing a close re-read for over two months now and i’m still on page 67 out of 300. (now i’m doing *all* exercises.)
i would probably get through it faster if i did it every day. might be a nice challenge (habit?) to build over the upcoming long pto (i forgot to spend it over the year so it coalesced)
imagine that, intentionally building a habit. what level of control is that? who am i kidding? but maybe it’ll just flow..
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