Gudang Daya

I knew nothing about Feynman the colorful character when I first leaved the first (digital) page of this delightful book. I closed it being enriched by this Physics professor’s tale of his escapades not only in the scientific realm, but even in those realms far away: art, music, education, travel, dating, gambling, nude dancing, and safe cracking.

The common threads of late Dr. Feynman’s autobiography is his social fearlessness, his hyperactive mind, his uncanny persistence and diligence, and for the most part, his humility. Each of these traits existing on its own in one individual would have already yielded a wonderful persona worthy of knowing, all taken together compound my regret of not knowing him sooner, and resulted in a renewed vigor to develop similar characteristics in my own life journey to a desiredly full, accomplished life.

In the middle of life’s busyness as a non-historian, a non-US Citizen even, it is still good for one to be reminded time and time again of great souls, and the lasting deeds they have helped birthed. It is also good for this reminder to be short, to the point, yet weighty and full of mass. This quick 76-page summary serves excellently as such reminder of 1) the triumph of the republic system as the modern world knows it, and 2) the abolition of slavery. I came away finishing the prose inspired, encouraged, informed, and yes, reminded.