Feynman’s Breakthrough: Disregard Others

Therein lies the best career advice I could possibly dispense: just DO things. Chase after the things that interest you and make you happy. Stop acting like you have a set path, because you don't. No one does. You shouldn't be trying to check off the boxes of life; they aren't real and they were created by other people, not you. There is no explicit path I'm following, and I'm not walking in anyone else's footsteps. I'm making it up…

This feels like the sort of advice that increases the variance of outcomes more than the mean, if that makes any sense. It'll help some people, but also really won't help others. It's like... You'd need some serious disregard for the rest of the physics community to think you can figure out a reactionless drive. This is great if you actually can, but otherwise it's going to lead you to failure. In a lot of ways, getting advice from the…

Dangerous Idiot Strategy: Do X, which sounds cool. (Where X may be "Disregard Others") Genius Strategy: Do X, which happens to sound cool, in carefully constrained contexts and timeframes*, where X is low-risk & likely high-reward. *Genius may be required to correctly set constraints.