Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Understanding vs. Memorizing

My sister tells me that learning life lessons is no different than learning things in school. Some things you need to get deep into and understand how it all works and why, and some things you just need to memorize for the inevitable test.
And according to her method, it is time for me to stop trying to understand why I made the choices I made in the past year. She gave me the following mantra of a helpful and frank title and a trio of aides-mémoires, with instructions to simply memorize it without going too deep:

Cut the crap: I'm over it, what's done is done, I'm moving on.