What’s the best advice you’ve gotten?
One of the best pieces of advice I got was from a tutor I had several years ago. I was applying to Uni and was being tutored for the SSAT. I was incredibly tired that day and my session was almost over. All that was left was one math problem that, while not particularly hard, was incredibly timely. It was a several part problem with long numbers and variables that I had to check over several times so that I didn't make a small mistake that would ruin my whole process. After I had finished the problem, I went into another lengthy process to check my work. When he asked me what I was doing, I explained my entire process back to him. At this point I was reaching my limit for the amount of energy I had left to work on math. As I was halfheartedly re-explaining my work, my tutor stopped me. He asked me why I was going through all of this trouble to check my work when I had gotten an answer already. When I told him that I was checking my work to make sure I didn't make any mistakes ...