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.
A glimpse of Richard Feynman's thinking.
There is a vast difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something. Most "expertise" is fluency in vocabulary masquerading as understanding. The only honest test is whether you can explain the idea in simple terms, from the ground up, without leaning on the jargon. If you can't, you don't understand it — you've just memorised the labels.
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Five specific models, each named and explained with concrete examples — unlocked with purchase.
What do I actually understand here, versus just know the words for?
4 more questions in Richard Feynman's voice are unlocked with purchase.
Full list of anti-patterns unlocked with purchase.
The full framework adds: detailed explanations of all five mental models with real-world examples, the decision heuristics Richard Feynman actually used, remaining signature questions, the complete list of anti-patterns, a copy-paste activation prompt, and a worked example.
Unlocked the moment you purchase. ~2,000 words total. Delivered as a Claude Skill and plain .md within 60 seconds of checkout.
- ✦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
- →richard-feynman.zip — a native Claude Skill. Upload to Settings → Skills in Claude, or unzip to
~/.claude/skills/ - →richard-feynman-framework.md — plain markdown. Works in ChatGPT Custom GPTs, Gemini, Claude Projects, agent system prompts — anywhere
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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.