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How can a person honestly argue that another person should have spent their time elsewhere or researched in a different manner? Feynman wrote a lot about how he was forced into researching in certain methods and researching certain things, and he realized he hated it and was ineffective as a result. It wasn't until he allowed his playful, curious, and lighthearted self to come out that he really started enjoying his work and getting somewhere. Supposedly his breakthroughs in QED all began from a simple curiosity into the wobbling nature of a plate that a student one day threw into the air.

People are stimulated in different ways.




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