Fortune #01

In an old tale, Zeuxis paints fruit so convincingly that birds try to eat it. Proud of himself, he visits Parrhasius and asks him to pull aside a curtain covering a painting. The curtain is the painting.

Zeuxis admits that the other artist fooled him. Later, birds approach cherries in his own painting again. This time he spots a flaw himself: if the painted boy looked equally real, the birds should have stayed away.

The tale is not a measure of anyone's real skill. It shows a useful moment in practice: others may admire a result while its maker can still see a precise part to improve. Noticing an error does not erase the progress already made.

When you revisit a missed question, name the error. Did you misread it, choose the wrong principle, or slip in a calculation? Work on that step instead of looking only at the total score.