Help me /sci I feel like i'm slowly declining, over the

It almost feels as if the fact that i'm no longer getting challenged fucked me over? Does anyone know how to solve this and sharpen myself again?

>>9078851
Get challenged, obviously. Do math olympiad problems, for example.

>>9078857
Yea but ill need baby tier challenges

Unbalance your life and acquire a few unhealthy habits, maybe drop your security layer and face the horrors of reality

>>9078846
The solution is getting your PhD early, then quickly climbing the ladder until you are a full time professor and then you are already leading the grad students.

All of this so that when your own skills start declining you can leech off of your students. For example, you can have your ideas and then tell them "Here, it is trivial. Do these experiments, they will serve you well". Then you get the results, explore them with the other professors and then give your student 9999th author position in your paper.

>>9078901

> implying there are experiments in math
> implying math papers have more than 3 authors

>>9078903
That is just the general example. Everyone leeches off of their students. Tell them it is a trivial exercise. Give it to them as homework. Heck, Terence Tao in typical asshole high ranked academic fashion leeched off of like 50 people in his polymath thing to write a paper himself about the results.

That is just how academia works. When you start declining you should already have a powerful position so that you can steal from your students.