[fzkl]

To clarify, I understood the solution to the problem. But what bothers me more is that I couldn't have thought of it by myself.

[lsc]

and? I don't know about you, but I think I am reading the wrong book if the author is not better than I am at the subject at hand.

[fzkl]

I don't have an issue with the authors being smarter than I am. I think they are awesome. Like I said, I liked the challenge of the exercises for which the authors didn't give any solution. And when I cracked these exercises it felt really good.

And I have read many other intellectually stimulating books, but those books don't make me feel like what I am feeling right now.