I absolutely loved this book.
I had a smile on my face the whole time I was reading it.
My Feynman was so full of mischief and curiosity about the world.
He saw the world as a series of puzzles and he felt driven to solving them.
When he became curious about something or wanted to learn about something, or how to do something, he dove straight in and became an expert via experimentation.
This book was recommended several times inside a collection of interview transcripts with many of the worlds greatest minds. It just kept popping up again and again.
It’s not normally a book I would choose. It’s a collection of reminiscences by the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman who was born in 1918 and died in 1988.
I found this list of about 200 Feynman stories in the book useful for finding my 11 favourites. Continue reading “Surely You’re Joking Mr Feynman: Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard P. Feynman”