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Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
Richard Feynman ISBN 0786167998
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Richard Feynman ISBN 0786167998
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This book by Richard Feynman has come up 5 times across 2 different shows: Andrew Huberman, Tim Ferriss. 5 of those mentions were genuine on-air recommendations, not just passing references. The people who brought it up: Andrew Huberman, Tim Ferriss. The earliest mention we indexed is from 2021-02-22 and the most recent from 2026-01-29. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
The biography of the physicist and Nobel prize winner Richard P. Feynman - a collection of short stories, chapters told to and written down by Ralph Leighton. Feynman tells of his childhood and youth and goes into his adult life, both personally and professionally.
“if you read any of the books about Fineman or by Fineman, surely you're joking, Mr. Fineman or what do you care what other people think? These are wonderful short stories”— Andrew Huberman
The guest here is Andrew Huberman (solo): Professor of neurobiology and ophthalmology at Stanford School of Medicine and host of the Huberman Lab podcast. This is a solo Essentials episode. Huberman explains the neuroscience of play and why low-stakes, playful exploration is the most powerful portal to lifelong brain plasticity.
“one of them is surely you're joking Mr Fineman that's That's a classic on my bookshelf that I revisit pretty often”— Tim Ferriss
The guest here is Brian Armstrong: Co-founder and CEO of Coinbase, the crypto exchange he founded in 2012; also funder of biotech startup New Limit and scientific platform ResearchHub. Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong on building crypto, making unpopular leadership calls, and funding longevity science.
“If you haven't already read books such as "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman," or "What Do You Care What Other People Think," I encourage you to do so.”— Andrew Huberman
The guest here is Andrew Huberman: Professor of neurobiology and ophthalmology at Stanford School of Medicine and host of the Huberman Lab Podcast. This is a solo episode with no outside guest. Huberman reframes grief as a motivational, dopamine-driven yearning state and explains how to remap loss across space, time, and closeness.
“If you read any of the books about Feynman or by Feynman "Surely You're Joking." Mr. Feynman... these are wonderful short stories”— Andrew Huberman
The guest here is Andrew Huberman: Professor of Neurobiology and Ophthalmology at Stanford School of Medicine and host of the Huberman Lab Podcast. This is a solo episode with no outside guest. Andrew Huberman explains how play rewires the brain at any age by triggering neuroplasticity through low-stakes, low-adrenaline exploration of new roles and contingencies.
“makes me think about one of my favorite books surely you must be joking mr feynman about the physicist richard feynman”— Tim Ferriss
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