I guess I am reading this book for the nth time in the past couple of years… I got hold of this book from one of my freind dads collection.
If you are looking for one person who has some achievement or other in more than two,three disciplines…then atleast one such person is Mr Richard Feynman. The book describes the incredible life of open-minded person, who can during one life do:
* Learn to repair radio as a thirteen years old child.
* How to earn money in Las Vegas.
* How to be friend of big fish in Las Vegas.
* Be a samba school member.
* Play hald-professionaly on the drum for the ballet.
* How to make impression on women in bars (do not pay for them silly).
And get ….. Nobel Prize!!!!
Apart from physics, the other constant themes of these stories are a desire to poke at how the world works, both things and people, and self-confidence that he often uses to fool people into thinking he knows more than he does. Like his dream analysis, studies of ants, and his forays into drawing and bongo drumming. OR getting remarkably lucky solving math problems in his head. And when he finds something (usually some set of rules) that he doesn’t think make sense, he’s merciless about poking sticks at it: exposing a hole in the fence at Los Alamos, frequenting and testifying for a topless bar, or participating in the high school textbook selection process in California.
The stories start with Feynman’s childhood, when he figured out how to repair radios and made a reputation for himself doing so around the neighborhood, and run through his career at Caltech. The most memorable are probably the stories of the Manhattan Project, particularly his famous account of how he figured out how to crack the office safes used in the project and then made use of that later on several occasions to recover important files (as well as to play with people’s heads).
One comes away from this book feeling like the universe makes so much more sense when Feynman explains it, and simultaneously realizing how difficult it would be to muster the self-confidence to get away with much of what he gets away with. After reading this book I am sure everyone will amazed thinking: How one person could have done so many wonderfully crazy things happen to him in one life is sometimes hard to believe. That one person could invent so much innocent mischief in one life is surely an inspiration. And last but not the least – the book is hilarious, so you enjoy reading it.
You will find a copy of this book for people who like reading online at: http://www.gorgorat.com/
~Babu
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