What one fool can do, another can.

After failing #Calculus 1 three times at two different colleges I finally found the one calculus text that was both readable and easily understandable.

This quote from the Prologue of Calculus made easy by Silvanus Thompson (1910) has informed my every endeavor since I first read it in 1989.

Afterwards I went on to ace Calculus 1-4 at a university level, even though over the past 30 years, I have never needed more calculus than what is presented in this relatively tiny text.

Calculus made easy is now available for free from Project Gutenberg here:
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/33283/33283-pdf.pdf