I originally read parts of this as a teenager, in Russian translation and it was entertaining, with the stories of opening safes and finding flaws in uranium refinement facilities. Reading the full book, I found more entertaining stories, like about playing drums at Rio carnival. And then I finished the book, and things clicked together into something more important.<br><br>Feyman has accomplished quite a lot, so what can we learn? Between funny stories, we see that he was gave focused attention to everything he tried, even such things as playing drums or cracking safes or painting. He did not care much about social norms (visiting strip clubs to drink some 7-up), or impressions (calling stupid ideas as such right away), or being organized (nearly sleeping in a pile of fallen leaves once). The last chapter say the most important thing is to be "utterly honest".<br><br>By the contrast, social ideal these days appear to be a person who is serious, polite, socially-acceptable and is into "getting things done" - but does not necessary tries his best to check the important things - much like book reviewers Feyman describes, who gave A rating to a book having nothing but empty pages. And later, such people become just "pompous fools". We all need to try staying as utterly honest as possible, and making it into key social norm, above all forms of pretense