I don't remember how I came across this book; maybe because Feynman is widely recognized as a great teacher and speaker, someone with an honest, earnest even!, appreciation for physics, mathematics, the sciences in general.

He was generally very curious, and after having read this sort of memoir — it's all, after all, "based on recorded audio conversations that Feynman had with his close friend and drumming partner Ralph Leighton" — I suppose I became a bit more mindful about the power of curiosity, relentless tinkering, being unafraid of failure, etc. which are generaly traits of highly successful people, anyway.

(not that I'd necessarily want to be one, mind you)

Feynman, the concept of tangent, and a musing on how people think