That makes sense. However (and this is just my isolated experience) I found some good teachings in Feynman in my teens/early 20s without really ending up mimick

That makes sense. However (and this is just my isolated experience) I found some good teachings in Feynman in my teens/early 20s without really ending up mimicking his style or behaviors. Some anecdotes in Surely You're Joking were comforting--for example, that you can pick up new skills very late into adulthood that are typically thought of as only accessible by starting early, if you approach them with curiosity. And some were politically inspiring: with the Challenger disaster, he was an outside mind investigating a systemic problem where people's incentives were en masse preventing them from seeing an ossified power structure. At least that's how he described it, and I'm convinced the lesson was valuable even if it was more complex than that.