Citation needed.

For people at the Physics Olympiad level, it is hard to find something as eye-opening and insightful as Feynman Lectures on Physics.

For more "general audience", I guess that a more step-by-step is preferred. I know many people (usually not the Olympiad tribe) who preferred Halliday & Resnick.

It would be bad if we were to push students away from texts that are approachable for them, right?

And very important that someone who learns like you is not pushed towards the Feynman lectures because they are not a good cognitive fit.

I promise, we all learn very differently sometimes. I for one found logic as classically presented in CS studies - as symbolic text? - I found it to be very inefficient to acquire. There's a great deal of cognitive transformation that needs to happen. I do much better with wide-ranging abstractions and then then approaching the core logic in a variety of different mechanical approaches – then I "see" the core logic "through" the abstractions and implementations.

And that said, I honestly wish I had easier access to the cognitive style that works "directly" in mathematical symbols and logic and that classical logical training works for. (I don't know if that's you, but I've talked to people that think/function like that.) And I greatly respect that capacity. I.e. I'm definitely not saying mine is better. Only different.

For what it's worth, when I was in that position I found some of the Landau and Lifshitz stuff at least as insightful. I'm all for Feynman as a supplement, by the way.

Including, you know, Richard Feynman.

But definitely sometimes for some. Including to start with.

They’re quite beautiful.