[Mistletoe]

Feynman never needed to tell you how smart he was, it just flowed out naturally as he talked about things in his beautiful clear way.

[thefaux]

Disagree on Feynman. He seemed extraordinarily invested in showing off and self-mythologizing.

[xetplan]

Murray Gell-Mann said exactly this. He basically got tired of working with him because everything about his personality was to generate stories and mythologies about himself.

To me, this whole idea shows what a fool the average man is.

As if we all know so much about Richard Feynman compared to Murray Gell-Mann because of what a great scientist Richard Feynman was. When OBVIOUSLY, the reason is because of the degree Feynman self promoted himself compared to other scientists.

[vunderba]

Yeah, very obviously a highly intelligent man but it's immediately obvious that he was very carefully crafting how he wanted to be perceived by others in several of his self aggrandizing memoirs.

[bdjsiqoocwk]

Jesus Christ what an awful example. If there's one thing that feynman did whenever he met anyone, was made it clear to them that he's smarter.