Horizon: Richard Feynman - No Ordinary Genius (full version)

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Cites Nevaeh88888 · 2012-04 · on “Feynman: I am burned out and I'll never accomplish anything”

There is actually a video of Feynman himself elaborating further: [LINK] I would say that the death of his first wife Arlene and the aftermaths of the Trinity Project affected Feynman greatly, as exuberant as he is usually. Feynman's magnificent exuberance and puzzle solving enthusiasm was also illustrated during his last days, where his coworker Christopher Sykes remarked "Look at this man. He faces the abyss. He doesn't know whether he is going to live through this week. But he was consumed by it, and he worked on it all day long...." [this video] Feynman was the epitome of the "Doing things for the fun of it" philosophy. His last words to his artist friend Jirayr was "Don't worry about anythin

Cites Nevaeh · 2012-06 · on “Feynman's Clock”

Good read, but there's so much more to the story. His book "What do you care what other people think" is a homage to Arlene, partly because Feynman made the fatal mistake of trusting the doctor's judgement to disregard the blatantly obvious diagnosis. He wrote about his experience in much more detail here: Part 1: [LINK] Part 2: [LINK] He was depressed for a while but eventually his love for physics helped him recover. Feynman is the most logical and happiest human I have ever seen. Hans Bethe once said, "Feynman depressed is just a little more cheerful then any other person when he is exuberant." Feynman's magnificent exuberance and puzzle solving enthusiasm remained up until his last days,

Cites Nevaeh · 2012-06 · on “Richard Feynman’s Caltech Graduation Address on Integrity ”

"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself--and you are the easiest person to fool. So you have to be very careful about that." Upon reading this paragraph, I was reminded of his book "What do you care what other people think", which was a homage to Arlene, partly because Feynman made the fatal mistake of trusting the doctor's judgement to disregard the blatantly obvious diagnosis. He wrote about his experience in much more detail here: Part 1: [LINK] Part 2: [LINK] --------------------------------------------------------- //Comments below are irrelevant to the thread, I just felt like sharing. Feynman was depressed for a while but eventually his love for physics helped him reco

Cites Jach · 2012-11 · on “Stripe's 22-Year-Old Irish-Born Founder Is Just Getting Started”

Be careful of generalizing parenting methods, also don't put too much weight on parenting when there's at least as much (though probably more) due to genetics. (There's also a nice low-hanging fruit plucked by making sure the child has enough iodine in the womb/early infancy[1].) With parenting tricks, what seems to "work" remarkably well for one child might not work at all for another child, even in the same family! I'm not a parent so I observe this lack of generalized techniques from multi-sibling families with very different sibling life outcomes and also from Feynman's anecdote on his son and his daughter. Here's him telling it: [this video] (at the 49 minute mark). [1] [LINK]