Physics is Like Sex

Draft: Feb. 14, 2008

This is a story I heard from a POD cast from the Writer's Almanac:

After worked in the Manhattan project and witnessed the explosion of the first A-bomb, Richard Feynman felt there was no point building anything any more--they would be destroyed anyway. He wandered around pondering what he should do. Later on he decided to do what he loved to do--physics. When asked why he chose to teach physics, he answered, "Physics is like sex; they may sometimes produce useful products, but that's not why we do it."

I watched an episode of Donny Deutch show on TV where Deutch interviewed Bill Gates and Warren Buffet. In answering a question from Deutch, Warren Buttet said he enjoyed managing investment and was good at it. It just happened he made a lot of money doing what he loved. He didn't plan to become rich.

My reflection: Doing what interest you and let God worry about the rest.
Aristotle said, "We are what we repeated do. Excellence then, is not an act, but rather a habit." It's a lot easier doing what you love to do repeatedly. If you do it repeatedly you'll get good at it. When you are good at something, anything, even if you don't get rich, you'll still be happy. Feynman and Buffet did just that and became the laureates in their respective field.