Not necessarily thinking about getting down every word that I say on paper, remembering everything, memorizing everything.

而不是忙于记录我说的每一个字，记住每一个词，背诵每一句话。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

The things that they taught us in school, when they required us to remember poetry, no matter how we try, we can't forget it, and the stuff that we had to remember that was in prose, no matter how we try we can't remember it.

我们在学校所学的知识,当以诗歌的形式进行记忆时,不论怎么尝试,我们都很难忘记,但是如果让我们背诵散文,不论怎么尝试,我们都很难记住

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