I have had this book for sometime now and i always have it nearby for times when i would like a random reading session to distract my mind. Yes, i do that. take on another task to get a new perspective for an existing challenge.
It is not an easy and straightforward book to read. But there are nuggets you will discover as you read it and when you re-read a few chapters or even just in sections.
There are just chapters though that takes all of my concentration to understand bits of it but there are also chapters full of anecdotes that are both fun and serious and it just about humanizes these people whose names we see only in scientific books and journals – Bohr, Compton, Oppenheimer, Fermi, Von Neumann, Einstein and the lot.
Feynman, like every one else started at the bottom, but had this attitude of calling it as it is. No matter who he was talking to. If he thinks the idea is lousy, then it is lousy. If it is good, then it is good. All of these of course with the intent of discussing ideas. In this case, he was talking to the great Dr. Niels Bohr, whose atomic model led to a greater understanding of atoms and quantum theory.
For scientific leaders and all else who have leadership responsibilities, it is also always good to take Dr. Niels Bohr position of wanting someone to discuss ideas with. Not a yes man/woman but someone who can call things as it is.
There are still a lot to discover about Feynman’s thought processes and experience that people can well relate to.
As the book’s title says, it is after all in the Pleasure of Finding Things Out.
my take 