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Feynman started fixing radios and antennas as a kid. During the Great Depression, people did not have enough money to hire a radio repairman, so they hired him
by 29athrowaway 5y ago
Feynman started fixing radios and antennas as a kid.
During the Great Depression, people did not have enough money to hire a radio repairman, so they hired him instead. He started taking incrementally more difficult jobs, until he got very skilled at it.
Another cool fact about Feynman is that he had some built-in syntax highlighting for equations in his head. A very specific type of a condition known as grapheme-color synesthesia.
- okareaman 5y agoFeynman used to think about the problem before doing anything, so his neighbor asked him why he wasn't working on the radio but standing there staring off into space. After Feynman fixed his radio, his neighbor told everyone in amazement "He fixes radios by thinking!" You could take this to mean he thinks about the problem first, but I think the neighbor (this was in late 1920's, early 1930's) meant that he was was amazed because Feynman appeared to reach into the radio with his mind to fix it.
- 29athrowaway 5y agoIt was after that that he enrolled into every physics class he could. I think being exposed to early electronics (before transistors) must have been an incredible learning experience for a kid.
- MengerSponge 5y agoPhysicists joke about the Feynman Problem Solving Method: 1) Write down the problem. 2) Think really hard. 3) Write down the solution.