[qeorge]

In theory, I've always understood that Math is Programming is Math. Or at least I accepted it as true. But I swear, it only really "clicked" for me a few weeks ago. I've been programming for almost 20 years, and I feel like I just joined the party.

It made me think - how different would my programming and math experiences have been if I'd "gotten" it sooner?

So if I were you, I would stop focusing on programming for right now, and dive as deep as you can into math. Its another path to some of the same epiphanies, and perhaps you won't feel so much like you're wasting time reaching a point you'd already attained before. Climb a different hill instead.

And don't forget that life is about learning, not what you already know. None of us ever stop learning. There is no beginning and no end, indeed there is no path. Only Now :)