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This is Feynman’s Thinking Habit. It Made Him a Genius
Think 10x clearer with this simple mental trick.
I love learning from history’s greatest minds. I’ve written on brilliant thinkers like Einstein, Da Vinci, Carl Jung, Nietzsche and Schopenhauer. Today, I want to share Richard Feynman’s thinking habits. He always insisted he was just an ordinary guy who focused incredibly hard on learning how to think. But Feynman had an operating system for life. From decades of refusing to let understanding remain complicated. From going back to first principles again and again. And trusting simplicity as a sign of knowledge. He applied it everywhere. Physics, biology, drawing and more. He approached every new thing from zero. With curiosity, building from the basic principle up. “Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible,” he said.
Feynman was one of the most original minds of the 20th century. A Nobel Prize winner. A physicist who rewrote how scientists visualise quantum interactions. He demanded to understand things from the inside out. By building from scratch. Tearing ideas apart and reassembling them in his own way. He once said, “What I cannot create, I do not understand.” He was willing to start from scratch when everyone else kept going back to the established way of learning as the only…
