How Richard Feynman Learned to Loosen Up

“Life’s under no obligation to give us what we expect.”― Margaret Mitchell

Herbert Lui
5 min readNov 21, 2020

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In his book Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman recalls an art class when he was told, repeatedly to “loosen up.” He writes, “I figured that made no more sense than telling someone who’s just learning to drive to ‘loosen up’…

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Herbert Lui

Covering the psychology of creative work for content creators, professionals, hobbyists, and independents. Author of Creative Doing: https://www.holloway.com/cd