If you are surrounded by problems and cannot stop thinking about the past, try to focus on the present moment.

如果你被问题包围而无法停止对过去的思考，尝试专注于此时此刻吧。

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Many universities turn out graduates who are good at exams but unaccustomed to thinking about real-world problems.

许多大学毕业生精于考试，却疏于思考现实问题。

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There are different ways of thinking about problems that can lend themselves well to different solutions (I’ve recently learned a lot from diving into functional programming).

思考问题时有不同的思路，并且它们能够很好地应用于不同的解决方案（通 过钻研函数式编程我最近学了不少）。

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So one of my purposes of this course is to get you, whether you study Biomedical Engineering after this or not, excited about the subject so that you start thinking about how you could innovate in this area where lots of problems are still left to solve, so I'll see you on Thursday hopefully.

我这门课的目的之一就在于,无论你们继续学习生物医学工程与否,我想激发你们对这门课的兴趣,思考在这个仍旧存在诸多问题的领域中,你们能做出什么样的创新,希望在周四的课程中再见

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By pursuing new experiences and thinking differently about common problems, you are asking your brain to expend energy when its natural role is to conserve as much energy as possible.

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