How A Self-Taught Genius Learns

Richard Feynman was one of the greatest physicists to ever live. In his life, he worked on the atomic bomb at Los Alamos, made huge advancements in the field of quantum electrodynamics, won the Nobel Prize in physics, and created the Feynman Lectures, which is considered to be one of the best physics textbooks ever written. But what made Feynman so

special was not just what he did, but how he [music] did it. Because Feynman was a self-taught genius. I just finished reading Richard Feynman's autobiography, and this book completely changed how I think about learning. Because when it came to learning, Feynman was like no other. He didn't follow the same rules as everyone else,

he didn't read the same books as everyone else, and because of this, he was completely different and got way better results. So what I did after reading this book is I took it and I extracted seven principles, learning habits, and mental models that made Richard Feynman into a self-taught genius. These are principles that you

can take straight from this video and apply in your own life. So with that said, let me take you through the learning habits that made Richard Feynman one of the greatest physicists to ever live. So when I say that Feynman was a self-taught, I don't mean that he didn't go to college. He actually spent time at

MIT, Cornell, Caltech, and Princeton. So he was obviously pretty smart to begin with. But what I mean by this is that a lot of what made Feynman special, a lot of what made him a genius, isn't what he learned at these schools, but it's what he learned on his own. I mean, ever

since he was a kid, he was just naturally a self-taught learner. He said, "When I was about 11 or 12, I set up a lab in my house. It consisted of an old wooden packaging box that I put shelves in. I had a heater and I'd put in fat and cook french fried potatoes