Don't be GPT-3

This post is advice for problem-solving beginners in math. It’s halfway between Getting to know problems and Imperative statements in geometry don’t matter , but now I got it down to three words that are easy to remember: don’t be GPT-3 . What does that mean? Basically, I see a failure case in a lot of beginners who get fixated on some (often superficial) detail or wording in the problem…