'What Do You Care What Other People Think?': Further Adventures of a Curious Character
Richard P. Feynmanamazon.com
'What Do You Care What Other People Think?': Further Adventures of a Curious Character
VOICE AND TONE. Not long after reading Pluto’s Republic I bought a book by another Nobel Prize winner: Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!
William Zinsser • Writing to Learn: How to Write - and Think - Clearly About Any Subject at All
The brilliant physicist and Nobel Prize winner, Richard Feynman, on dealing with the expectations of others:
“You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish.
I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It's their mistake, not my failing.”
“You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish.
I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It's their mistake, not my failing.”
James Clear • 3-2-1: On Failure, the Importance of Teaching, and Handling the Expectations of Others | James Clear
The Feynman style can best be described as a mixture of reverence and disrespect for received wisdom. Physics is an exact science, and the existing body of knowledge, while incomplete, can’t simply be shrugged aside. Feynman acquired a formidable grasp of the accepted principles of physics at a very young age, and he chose to work almost entirely o
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His special talent was to approach essentially mainstream topics in an idiosyncratic way. This meant eschewing existing formalisms and developing his own highly intuitive approach.