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Hello everyone
This is the HopefulNovice
I've been quite frustrated as what to make next
Not because there isn't enough material
Quite the contrary
There's a lot of good stuff I want to talk about
Actually it's a person
But this video has very little to do with who he was
or his accomplishments like all the videos on
the internet about him
I've been a huge fan of him since I was a kid
So here I am today making a video about him, again after many many years
I want to use the Feynman principles
It is the things I found common while researching about him
 
 
 
 
 
I will go into detail on the first 2 principles in this video
Ask yourself this
In whichever field you are in
or the field you want to get good at 
do you know the fundamentals in your field. Do you understand
the basics well enough to teach someone 
if there are caveats, which there should be this is
what feynman did after his second year
of graduate school at princeton richard
feynman faced his oral examinations
feynman was not yet the famous physicist he
would soon become so he took his
preparation quite seriously
in the biography of feynman James Gleick
wrote "He opened a fresh notebook. On the title page
he wrote NOTEBOOK OF THINGS I DON’T KNOW ABOUT. For the first but not the
last time he reorganized his knowledge. He worked for weeks at
disassembling each branch of physics, oiling the parts, and putting them back together
looking all the while for the raw edges and inconsistencies. He tried to find the essential kernels
of each subject
so now this guy ultimately wins noble prize and does a whole lot more, we
we should definitely learn this and add it to our lives. Break down your field into small components,
one branch at a time, get the fundamentals or get good grip at the area where you are lacking
maybe it is another field from which you want to borrow and understand concepts,  just do it!
again all these thing’s seem common knowledge, everyone know’s that we should
have strong fundamentals, that we should think outside the box, look at things
differently
yet do we do it? I think not as much as we should. Some people naturally decide to look at something
differently
differently, look for something peculiar, some new pattern. Let’s see an example of what feynman did in the
area of seeing things differently.In the 1950’s people were trying
to understand how superfluid helium worked. A
superfluid is a fluid flowing north
A superfluid is a fluid flowing with no resistance. There was a theory by a russian physicist, it was a terribly complicated theory
full of very difficult integrals, formulas and so forth. It sort of worked and
didn’t work really well,the only way it worked was when the helium atoms
very very far apart. unfortunately helium atoms in liquid helium are right on top of each other
feynman decided as an amateur helium physicist that he would figure it out
guided by a small number of principles, his aim was to visualize the interactions
the principles were quite simple, when helium atoms touch each other they repel
 
He had a simple piece of paper and pencil, he tried to write down the simplest function he could think of
which followed the two principles
what he wrote was so simple in fact that even
a smart high school student who didn’t know calculus could probably understand it. The thing was
what he wrote down explained everything that was known about liquid helium and then some
I’d like to read one last thing by feynmanSee that bird? It’s a brown-throated thrush, in Germany it’s called a halzenfugel
and in Chinese they call it a chung ling
and even if you know all those names for it, you still know nothing about the bird. You only know something about
people; what they call the bird. Now that thrush sings, and teaches its young to fly
, and flies so many miles away during the summer across the country, and nobody
knows how it finds its way.
Names don’t constitute knowledge, though names are important when talking to people
Leonard Susskind a great physicist and good friend of richard feynman said “We should
honor feynman by getting as much baloney out of our sandwiches as we can”
which basically means to remove pointless things and to really get stuff, to grok
thank you everyone
I'll take my leave
