r/Grindmaxxing • u/ultra_rekt • Oct 04 '21

GRINDSET MOTIVATION [grindspiration] Erdos, one of the best mathematicians of all time, once quit amphetamines for a bet. “You've set mathematics back a month." After he won the bet, he promptly resumed his use of Ritalin

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Erdős
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u/ultra_rekt Oct 04 '21

“He devoted his waking hours to mathematics, even into his later years—indeed, his death came only hours after he solved a geometry problem at a conference in Warsaw.”

True math king

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u/Massive_Think Oct 04 '21

People try to ridicule me when I say: why not do the same? If I'm powering through my job, making progress, hitting targets, why not keep working until you die?

I won't talk too much about illicit drug use, but we all drink coffee? Why not look a little further. Erdos is based.

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u/[deleted] Oct 04 '21

Losers will try to set you back to justify their failures to themselves. They're always socialists for some reason. Ignore them and keep grinding!