Feynman talks about scientific integrity as the greater lesson within experimenting and teaching physics. This is a lesson which he doesn’t quite teach directly but hopes one would understand through osmosis. Much of his stories within Surely You’re Joking Mr. Feynman! relate back to catching the gaps where the integrity needed for science wasn’t fully aligned.
“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself — and you are the easiest person to fool.”
When you learn without first principles you begin to miss the entire point.
An overly generous interpretation: The pickup world tries (but often misses the point) to teach men this osmosis meta lesson of how to be a better pick as a mate. “What makes a man attractive?” And most will try to explain something downstream of their amorphous idea of what works. It’s a hard lesson to teach directly but the hope is that you would understand the whole picture later.
Perhaps it’s these lessons which Use schema would help us start to see the inter-connectedness firsthand rather than trying to learn linearly from the flow of the books. Or perhaps it’s such a larger spiritual lesson that requires things to fall into place. When Learning happens in layers, perhaps some holistic vantages are too difficult to grasp and we have to instead focus on the different fine-grain points.
Reference
Surely You’re Joking Mr. Feynman!
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