Having read about Feynman, as well as his books, my superficial takeaway is there was Feynman before his first wife's death, the "wicked" middle, and then his f

Having read about Feynman, as well as his books, my superficial takeaway is there was Feynman before his first wife's death, the "wicked" middle, and then his final, successful marriage. A lot of the stories are from the middle. Being exceptionally intelligent doesn't mean he was wise in the ways of life. Like many people, he was flawed, and after the traumatic death of his wife his participation in life was marred by his that lack of wisdom and perhaps his own intellectual approach to beating the "game". We irresponsibly expect perfection from heroes. If heroes aren't perfect, how can the average person be held to that metric? You'd have to cancel all of humanity (we really are shit, TBH).