It also helps greatly to be as smart as him.
Richard Feynman might disagree.
Study Tips from Richard Feynman
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#12There's the famous Feynman method i.e. Study hard, Teach it to others, Identify the gaps in your own knowledge, and Simplify/Synthesize. But people often also forget that there is another method associated with Feynman aka The Feynman Algorithm (which was outlined by his colleague Murray Gell-Mann, a noble prize winning physicist himself). This method goes as follows: 1. Write down the problem. 2. Think real hard. 3.…
Like an MLB player telling you if you want to get better at baseball to throw the ball faster . thanks.
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#14“The only way to deep happiness is to do something you love to the best of your ability.” That's sums it up pretty well.
I think there are some (perhaps many) people who just don't have this level of passion in themselves. When I was younger, I liked working in software. It was fun, and interesting, but did I "love" it? Honestly I don't think so. Looking back on my time as a student, I can't think of any subject that I loved so much that that studying was something I wanted to do. It was always a chore, always something I did because i…
I believe that all children are born with a burning passion for learning. Some then have it beaten out of them by a slow, routine, inhuman education system that crushes individual creativity.
I try to make up for it with my own children by sending them to regular school, but then encouraging them to self-teach the things that interest them.
I'm sorry that you are unsatisfied in your work. Perhaps if it were economically viable, a long sabbatical would allow you to find more meaning in your life and perhaps a new career. I wish we could all do that when nescessary.
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
Richard Feynman might disagree. https://youtu.be/IIDLcaQVMqw
his humbleness is why he's so popular. But you don't win Putnam by studying. you got to be really brilliant too.
Well if you consider him brilliant then perhaps you would believe him when he says that talent isn't nearly as important as studying.
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#16It also helps greatly to be as smart as him.
Richard Feynman might disagree. https://youtu.be/IIDLcaQVMqw
I didn’t believe in talent until after I spent over ten years trying to learn music, and then seeing 5 year-olds on YouTube doing stuff I can only dream of. True, some, perhaps most of it is hard work, but talent makes the process a lot easier.
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#17“The only way to deep happiness is to do something you love to the best of your ability.” That's sums it up pretty well.
I think there are some (perhaps many) people who just don't have this level of passion in themselves. When I was younger, I liked working in software. It was fun, and interesting, but did I "love" it? Honestly I don't think so. Looking back on my time as a student, I can't think of any subject that I loved so much that that studying was something I wanted to do. It was always a chore, always something I did because i…
> Everything I do day-to-day is either stuff that I need to do to pay the bills and support my family
That's the universal trap.
> people like Feynman are born with a burning passion for learning that most people just don't have.
I am not sure about that. I'd say most people lose sight of their true passion. Mine happened to be programming, which now helps me pay my bills. But I'd be screwed if my true passion was drawing...
Wait, I used to love drawing, until I took drawing "lessons".
> Now, at halfway through my 50s, I would not be able to answer the standard interview question "what are you passionate about?"
I once heard this logic which did guide me a lot : if you were older (say 80), what would yo regret not having even tried ? If you haven't even tried, let's try.
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#18There's the famous Feynman method i.e. Study hard, Teach it to others, Identify the gaps in your own knowledge, and Simplify/Synthesize. But people often also forget that there is another method associated with Feynman aka The Feynman Algorithm (which was outlined by his colleague Murray Gell-Mann, a noble prize winning physicist himself). This method goes as follows: 1. Write down the problem. 2. Think real hard. 3.…
To be fair, I think Feynman applies this in sequence.
I.e Study hard, Teach it to others, Identify the gaps in your own knowledge, and Simplify/Synthesize.
THEN 1. Write down the problem. 2. Think real hard. 3. Write the solution.
If a problem seems intractable, return to the first process.
Also, remember that Feynman also spent weeks at play with problems that interested him. Do that too. Be kind to yourself.
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#19There's the famous Feynman method i.e. Study hard, Teach it to others, Identify the gaps in your own knowledge, and Simplify/Synthesize. But people often also forget that there is another method associated with Feynman aka The Feynman Algorithm (which was outlined by his colleague Murray Gell-Mann, a noble prize winning physicist himself). This method goes as follows: 1. Write down the problem. 2. Think real hard. 3.…
Gell-Mann probably had his tongue at least a little bit in his cheek when he said that: the two had a competitive relationship.
I always took it as a dig at the way Feynman liked to make out that ideas just came naturally to him, when in fact (as Murray would have known) Feynman had to put the work in the same as everyone else, even if he was a genius.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think there are some (perhaps many) people who just don't have this level of passion in themselves. When I was younger, I liked working in software. It was fun, and interesting, but did I "love" it? Honestly I don't think so. Looking back on my time as a student, I can't think of any subject that I loved so much that that studying was something I wanted to do. It was always a chore, always something I did because i…
I believe that all children are born with a burning passion for learning. Some then have it beaten out of them by a slow, routine, inhuman education system that crushes individual creativity. I try to make up for it with my own children by sending them to regular school, but then encouraging them to self-teach the things that interest them. I'm sorry that you are unsatisfied in your work. Perhaps if it were economica…
> Some then have it beaten out of them by a slow, routine, inhuman education system that crushes individual creativity.
...created by/for those who are trying to get it, not by those who did.