The Richard Feynman
Framework
First Principles & Teaching via Curiosity
Richard Feynman won a Nobel Prize in physics, played samba in Rio, cracked safes at Los Alamos, and drew nude portraits — and treated each pursuit with identical curiosity. His signature claim was that you cannot claim to understand something until you can explain it simply. This framework captures the Feynman Technique, his protocol against self-deception, and the play-as-engine principle that let him regenerate the curiosity required to solve genuinely hard problems.
- ✦Core philosophy — 2–3 sentences grounded in Richard Feynman's documented worldview
- ✦Five signature mental models — each named, with concrete examples from their work
- ✦Decision heuristics — the concrete rules they actually used
- ✦Signature questions — five questions that sound like Richard Feynman, not a generic MBA
- ✦What they would NOT do — the anti-patterns this framework rejects
- ✦Copy-paste activation prompt — drop straight into Claude or ChatGPT
- ✦Worked example — the framework applied to a realistic scenario
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Inspired by the documented thinking of Richard Feynman. A mental-model toolkit, not a literal representation. Delivered as a .md file compatible with Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and any LLM.