[HN Gopher] Powerful Study Tips from Richard Feynman ___________________________________________________________________ Powerful Study Tips from Richard Feynman Author : takiwatanga Score : 23 points Date : 2022-04-03 20:40 UTC (2 hours ago) (HTM) web link (piggsboson.medium.com) (TXT) w3m dump (piggsboson.medium.com) | yarky wrote: | "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. | throwawayboise wrote: | 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 it was a means to getting to a point in life where I | didn't have to do it anymore. | | Now, at halfway through my 50s, I would not be able to answer | the standard interview question "what are you passionate | about?" Nothing comes to mind. Everything I do day-to-day is | either stuff that I need to do to pay the bills and support my | family, or is in some way procrastinating on stuff that isn't | yet so urgent that I have to do it. | | I think people like Feynman are born with a burning passion for | learning that most people just don't have. | pddpro wrote: | There'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. Write the | solution. | | Not to discount or discredit anything (or anyone) here but we | must understand that Feynman was no average person and that his | advice on anything related to learning or problem-solving must be | viewed through an optics that adequately adjusts for his | intellect as well. | marginalia_nu wrote: | To be fair, that second algorithm works pretty well. I | frequently solve problems by staring at them. | WalterBright wrote: | My variation on that method: | | 1. load my brain with all the context of the problem | | 2. go out for a run, which bounces it all around in my brain | until things fall into place | | 3. write the solution when I get back | BurningFrog wrote: | A lazier step 2 that works for me is to sleep for a full | night. | qiskit wrote: | > Teach it to others | | If there's no one around, try explaining it to yourself. An | easy method to determine whether you superficially understood a | topic or not. After reading some material, it's remarkable how | little of it you've truly understood sometimes. | paulpauper wrote: | It also helps greatly to be as smart as him. | whatshisface wrote: | It's nice to get free stuff from nature but you can't go back | and ask for more. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-04-03 23:00 UTC)