Just a few days ago I ran into an ex-colleague of mine (Ravi G.) at a dinner party. He was mentioning his addiction to sudoku and he said that he would stay up late at night until he was able to solve a ‘medium’ difficulty websudoku.com puzzle in under 5 minutes. Now, that’s mighty impressive to me because I have only managed under-five-minutes on Easy puzzles and on rare occasions.
Ram
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Ram, thank you very much for sharing.
Here are some random thoughts that were triggerred by this post of yours.
First I think there are parts to the problem solving urge
( a ) intellectual fulfilment
( b ) social fulfilment
At united it was both ( a ) and ( b ), when you were problem solving to make a living. Along with the above two came a lot of other crap that I am glad you are now free from.
What you are proposing by virtue of puzzle books is to address (a). But I suspect you may not find that fully satisfying. Heres my projection, at some point you will seek ( b ) in some way - through writing a blog or book or volunteering for some problem solving type work at a non profit, or teaching part time - not because of career reasons but because you might feel like being connected to society and want appreciation from others. Solving problems at United got you appreciation aside from a career but solving puzzles will only give you an appreciation of mathematics. In some form I think you will seek appreciation from others. Personally, I hope you write a good book as a way of getting this.
Best wishes.
Arvind
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