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I wonder if this actually why we consider kids more creative than adults. Maybe it is really that they have just less to care for and more self-motivation than adults.

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Kids simply don't realize that certain things are impossible, so they do them.

When I was a kid I spent a lot of time trying to trisect an angle, sure that proofs it was impossible were erroneous and mathematicians were fools.

Of course I failed, but an adult would never have tried.

In junior high, my best friend and I spent weeks doing exactly this, and spending hours in our math teacher’s classroom, excitedly showing him our work. Thanks for reminding me of this. I can still remember some of our approaches.

This is sort of just a proof by contradiction.

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