Guilty of reading editorial
source link: http://codeforces.com/blog/entry/104067
Go to the source link to view the article. You can view the picture content, updated content and better typesetting reading experience. If the link is broken, please click the button below to view the snapshot at that time.
Why I always feel guilty while reading editorials, even after giving good attempt to a problem. Is it normal and fruitful in long run or I am just trapped into some bad habit?
|
13 hours ago, # | Because reading editorial is equivalent to proving I'm bad. And that is true most of the time. |
|
13 hours ago, # | Guilty of reading this blog |
-
If someone's asking for suggestion/help in community makes you feel guilty then friend sad to say this but people like you make the community toxic.
|
4 hours ago, # | I find this a bad mindset, if you need the editorial it's not that you are dumb or something, you just didn't know something, that's it. I feel that reading editorials with this sort of mindset only makes you read it "poorly" because you are unwilling to actually learn stuff from the editorial and only want to come up with stuff yourself. Instead I would say that you should start reading editorials more often and more thoroughly (Don't give up on understanding an editorial ever). That's basically all you need to become very good at CP, a passion to learn and a less stubborn mindset. P.S.: For reference take a look at some of the improvement in my own progress from the months of November and December. This is no coincidence, this is when I started to really become "ok" with reading editorials. |
-
Thank you, really different perspective from which I used to think.
But, The main reason for feeling guilty is problems which I solve are <= 1500 and mostly ad-hoc and every problem seems new and implementation wise its not that hard for me, so by reading editorials most of the time I only get the idea and I think if I can't get the idea while solving the problem then there is very high probability that I won't be getting it next time as well and this feeling makes me feel guilty and I think why can't I get this idea by myself even after trying for more than 1 hr.
|
4 hours ago, # | why ru guilty abt reading editorials when its completely harmless |
|
97 minutes ago, # | I can relate to you very well; during contests, I tried very hard but couldn't solve a problem that I felt I could have been able to solve. After reading the editorial, when I realized how close I was to the solution, I couldn't stop blaming myself over "wasting" a problem. I remember this quite: If you read the editorial, the problem is spoiled, not solved. In this regard, feeling a sense of guilt over reading the editorial is a very positive sign that you care about the problem as a puzzle, as a brain-teaser, and not as a difficulty number. Most of the times when I read the editorial, I know the necessary techniques. But knowing it is not enough; there are only so many techniques to learn. Thus, when you read the editorial, it's probably something you know, but never thought of using this way, and thus you feel guilty that you didn't think carefully enough and spoiled the problem... In the end, it's not a bad thing, as long as you gave it your all! |
Recommend
About Joyk
Aggregate valuable and interesting links.
Joyk means Joy of geeK