Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard P. Feynman

The book, Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character), covers the life of this physicist from his early days devising more efficient ways to answer the telephone at a hotel front desk, his encounters with Einstein and Bohr, to his consternation at receiving a Nobel Prize.

Professor Feynman is up for adventure.  He spends a year in Brazil, at first working to convert the Spanish he just learned into Portuguese and eventually moonlighting as a pandeiro player for a local samba band. He offers up a critique of the Brazilian educational system that is applicable to flaws in the US system. We learn by memorization but don't know how it applies to the real world.  


Leading up to World War II, he works for the military and then is pulled into the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos.  He is sent off to Oak Ridge Laboratories and discovers a storage problem with the nuclear material.  It is being stored too close together and could result in an explosion. He helps them redesign he plant even though he's never seen a blueprint before. 

When he returns to Los Alamos, Mr. Feynman learns how to become a safe cracker combining physics with psychology and illustrating lapses in the security system. 

The book celebrates the joy of saying yes to an adventure and yes to continually learning new skills to live life to its fullest. 

Richard Feynman - The Great Explainer -Sci Show - 10 min. 

Richard Feynman talks about light - 6 min.

Feynman''s Learning Technique - 2 min.