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A habit to work on is to make it a rule to verify your solutions, and especially the "fast" ones.

It's ok to do "fast thinking" if you verify, and go back and think through it properly if you fail (and hopefully over time learn to recognise what type of problems you know well enough for them to be worth making a "fast" attempt at first vs the ones you should just think through slowly from the outset.



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