This goes in a necessary direction, from my personal take away of Gower's recent post on the subject.
Mathematics is suffering from Goodhart's Law:
"When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."
Doing something difficult was a signal that you:
a- understood it and all the background information it requires
b- internalized techniques and methods that are helpful in problem solving in general
Now it just means nothing
Timothy Gower
Doing something difficult was a signal that you:
a- understood it and all the background information it requires
b- internalized techniques and methods that are helpful in problem solving in general
Now it just means nothing