12 Favorite Problems
Richard Feynman was fond of giving the following advice on how to be a genius. You have to keep a dozen of your favorite problems constantly present in your mind, although by and large they will lay in a dormant state. Every time you hear or read a new trick or a new result, test it against each of your twelve problems to see whether it helps. Every once in a while there will be a hit, and people will say, ‘How did he do it? He must be a genius!’
– Gian-Carlo Rota, Indiscrete Thoughts
- How to become a good software engineer?
- How to become an efficient life-long learner?
- How can I take steps to form relations?
- How do I become a life-long minimalist?
- How to communicate better with other people?
- How to write or express myself in a more fluent way?
- How to live rigorously?
- How to become more active and motivated?
- How to shift my attention from constantly worrying about self-improvement?
- How to become vulnerable and strong at the same time?
- How to take care of myself?
- What should I do to prevent anxiety and depression?
These questions are the journey we take on as a quest for answer, though answer itself is less relevant to the process as a result.