There are two people in my adult life that are the most influential to me in understanding how to achieve excellence. One of them is Tim Duncan, and the other one is Mr. Strickland, my first calculus teacher.
Mr. Strickland always started his first class of the semester with the same lecture,
In life, there are only three things you need to memorize:
1. Your name
2. The way home
3. The mean value theorem.Don't worry, I'm not going to tell you what the mean value theorem is when you can look it up for yourself.