5 Major Life Lessons from Prof. Richard Feynman
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1. Education
“It is a very dangerous policy to teach students only how to get certain results rather than how to do an experiment with scientific integrity.”
In school, we learn to follow specific steps to get a particular result, and if we don’t, we fail!
“It is a very dangerous policy to teach students only how to get certain results rather than how to do an experiment with scientific integrity.”
In school, we learn to follow specific steps to get a particular result, and if we don’t, we fail!
This makes us miss the probable new discoveries and develop a better understanding of the world.
“The students had memorized everything, but they didn’t know what anything meant.”
“The students had memorized everything, but they didn’t know what anything meant.”
2. Humility in learning
“When I was a student at MIT, I was interested only in science; I was no good at anything else.”
Successful people spend less time relying on what they already know and more time exploring new concepts and ideas.
“When I was a student at MIT, I was interested only in science; I was no good at anything else.”
Successful people spend less time relying on what they already know and more time exploring new concepts and ideas.
That is, humility in learning is not thinking less of what you already know but thinking of what you already know, less.
3. Hard work
“He compensated for his lack of training by hard work.”
Hard work can improve talent to higher levels. If talent and hard work go hand in hand, the outcomes must form way more useful.
“He compensated for his lack of training by hard work.”
Hard work can improve talent to higher levels. If talent and hard work go hand in hand, the outcomes must form way more useful.
If you are talented and don’t put in hard work, your talent will shift into nothing but useless. Talent indeed gives you an excellent beginning.
4. Doing what you love
From a young age, Feynman worked on all kinds of science experiments from his bedroom, and unlike most kids his age, his mother forced him to go out to play.
From a young age, Feynman worked on all kinds of science experiments from his bedroom, and unlike most kids his age, his mother forced him to go out to play.
This shows when you work on something that truly aligns with your strengths, you are more likely to succeed than merely going after a safe-paid job.
5. Multi-disciplinary thinking
“If our small minds, for some convenience, divide this universe into parts—physics, biology, geology, astronomy, psychology, and so on—remember that nature does not know it!”
“If our small minds, for some convenience, divide this universe into parts—physics, biology, geology, astronomy, psychology, and so on—remember that nature does not know it!”
“multidisciplinary thinking” means constantly learning new perspectives of the world and then putting them into practice.
You can’t make intelligent decisions with just isolated facts.
You can’t make intelligent decisions with just isolated facts.
The knowledge you gather from “learning all the big ideas and all the big disciplines” will help you attack problems from different angles.
From Elon Musk to Feynman and Jeff Bezos to Bill Gates, mental models are used by the most remarkable people.
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Put simply, it’s a psychological explanation of how things work, providing with a new way to see the world; as a result helping us make sense of reality
A mental model?
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