Writing is so wrapped up in ego, but with math one is just trying to get it right, although you're often wrong. I think math helped me become a good critic of myself, come at writing a little less personally.
“I do an awful lot of scuba diving. I love to be on the ocean, under the ocean. I live next to the ocean.”
“It really started cooking when I moved to Houston. I bought a house and got my own barbeque pit.”