Up: [[Questioning]] Related: [[Velcro or Me First Strategy]], [[Making Your Own Feynman's Dozen]] Created: 2024-01-21 Updated: 2026-09-08 Physicist Richard Feynman had an evolving list of a dozen favourite problems. They were open questions that he kept going back to every time he learned something new. He would check to see if the new learning helped him make connections to one or more of the questions. Feynman’s questions work like the [[Velcro or Me First Strategy]]. The questions in your head are loops; the ideas you come across are hooks. Without the loops being there, there wouldn't be any place for the hooks to attach. It’s interesting to see that a lot of his questions begin with #### How can I… - accurately keep track of time in my head? - keep doing important research with all the fame brought by the Nobel Prize? - write a sentence in perfect handwritten Chinese script? - design a large-scale computing system using only basic equipment? And also #### What is… - the smallest working machine that can be constructed? - the unifying principle underlying light, radio, magnetism, and electricity? - (are) the most effective ways of teaching introductory physics concepts? See also [[Making Your Own Feynman's Dozen]].