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Great point, and I totally agree. I recklessly picked Coltrane and Feynman as two extreme examples without knowing their thoughts on their work. Sometimes lit
by sivers 16y ago
Great point, and I totally agree. I recklessly picked Coltrane and Feynman as two extreme examples without knowing their thoughts on their work.
Sometimes little tiny essays like this can be too vague if they use no examples at all. The examples are never the point, though, and it's assumed the example will just get translated in the reader's head into their own more personally-meaningful example.
But FWIW the Feynman interview that I was trying to find was his moment of seeing the spinning plate, which I think led to his Nobel prize-winning work. I couldn't find that interview, but I thought I remembered him saying that it seemed obvious at the time.
- scott_s 16y agoThe point of the anecdote with the spinning plate is that he was surprised by the physics of it, once he worked it out. That is, what he thought was obviously true turned out to not be true. That kind of playful work - done for the fun of it after a long period of burn out - got him back on track for the work that eventually led to his Nobel. Interesting anecdote, but I don't think it's related to your thesis.
- xenophanes 16y agoOh, hi. Thanks for taking criticism well! That's something a lot of people could work on.