You know, I consider myself to have pretty excellent social skills—but I just don’t like doing things with other people. I can confidently say that doing mathematics, or any type of problem-solving activity with other people lessens the amount of fun I have doing it.
Maybe I just haven’t found the right people? There are a couple of friends I have who I enjoy discussing problems with, but all of us similarly agree that the bulk of the work is more fun done alone.
The only thing that I’ve found to really change how fun something is for me is to do it with other people.
You know, I consider myself to have pretty excellent social skills—but I just don’t like doing things with other people. I can confidently say that doing mathematics, or any type of problem-solving activity with other people lessens the amount of fun I have doing it.
Maybe I just haven’t found the right people? There are a couple of friends I have who I enjoy discussing problems with, but all of us similarly agree that the bulk of the work is more fun done alone.