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this is precisely my biggest feud with the schooling system here

i was quite good at math throughout my studies and thought how great for me... only too late have i realized i was good at it precisely because i was always certain there's a correct solution, it's reachable (because it was designed that way) and my only job was to find it. so i did (mostly)

real life, though, consists of problems you don't even know about. if you do, the solution space is not known. if it is, you have no idea if it's within your skillset. and if it is and you know it, solving it is not even rewarding... so, exactly as you write, you have to fall back to intuition—granted, solving "easy" school problems helps you sharpen it, but the general consensus i see is "educated people are smarter, intuition is not scientific" and it pisses me off so much.