How To Learn Math? — Notes To My Younger Self

I wish someone had told me this when I was younger!

Solve for x — Illustration created by the author

As someone who works with mathematics on a daily basis, I constantly reflect upon what I now know about math that I wish I knew earlier. I know that hindsight is 20–20. But still, I think it is human nature to self-reflect and it feels unnatural to resist it.