A Little More Failure...

"A little more persistence,  a little more effort,  and what seemed hopeless failure  may turn to glorious success."  - Elbert Hubbard I figured out this Labor Day Weekend that, if I study three lessons at Khan Academy a day, and engage in three mastery practice sessions, I should have most, if not all, the math classes at Khan Academy mastered within a year from now.  Could it really be possible to do this in baby steps like this? To completely retrain my brain? It seems like such a small effort - small from the outside, but herculean from within my mind. I'm going after something that felt impossible just a few years ago. I tell you though...it is getting more fun as I go along. Not the math itself...that's still work at this point. But it's fun to learn something I didn't know before. It's really fun to have those 'AHA!' moments, when something I'm struggling with suddenly makes sense. Still waiting for that to happen with rate problems, but polynomials was no problem whatsoever this weekend. It's all coming back. As far as computers go, I'm still approach-avoidance in actually getting my hands on the hardware and software itself. Have to stop being afraid to break things and take things apart. But I'm hoping, once I'm more versed on the mathematics underneath it all, then I can work on the fear of breaking things.