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To me the most amazing thing about Feynman was his enthusiasm for relatively mundane things such as the Rio Carnival, stripclubs, the bongos, painting and the
by GDC7 5y ago
To me the most amazing thing about Feynman was his enthusiasm for relatively mundane things such as the Rio Carnival, stripclubs, the bongos, painting and the fixation for going to Tuva which is a place forgotten by both god and men.
You'd think a guy who accomplished the things he accomplished would find it harder and harder to become enthusiastic about stuff, because of the effect of the hedonistic treadmill.
Somehow I think his biggest accomplishment was his ability to slow down the hedonistic tradmill.
- montblanc 5y agostripclubs? Edit: OK yes there were a bunch of stripclubs lol
- alisonkisk 5y agoFeyman went to strip clubs to sit and work like people do at coffee shops nowadays.
- mbg721 5y agoAs I recall the stories, his playing of the bongos wasn't exactly mundane; if anything, he was an expert at establishing eccentricity as a personal identity.
- GDC7 5y agoI mean, c'mon.....with all due respect for bongo players...reaching excellence in that field is also mundane as society doesn't exactly put bongo players on a pedestal
- mbg721 5y agoI wasn't so much concerned with his technical skill as his method of going about it, which was about as eccentric as one can get.
- mijoharas 5y ago> as his method of going about it What do you mean by this? did he have an unusual way of playing the bongos/learning the bongos or something? (or do you just mean because playing the bongos is something slightly unusual?)
- whatshisface 5y agoIf I were to identify anything with the hedonistic treadmill it wouldn't be integrals.
- avmich 5y agoI think, Heinlein in "Have spacesuit - will travel" mentions something to the tune of "math is worse than peanuts". Integrals could be holding attention quite well - just check Youtube channels with explanations of everything, or MOOCs which have rather robust audience.
- whatshisface 5y agoIt's not so much that there's no aspect of math that is pleasing, as it is that whatever it is, it's exempt from the hedonistic treadmill.
- vvoaterr 5y agoyou mean, hedonic treadmill
- whatshisface 5y agoIf there's one thing I'd associate with the hedonic treadmill, it wouldn't be remembering the difference between hedonic and hedonistic.
- vvoaterr 5y agoyou mean, hedonic treadmill