‘This? It is called a Pensieve,’ said Dumbledore.’ I sometimes find, and I am sure you know the feeling, that I simply have too many thoughts and memories crammed into my mind.’ ‘Er,’ said Harry, who couldn’t truthfully say that he had ever felt anything of the sort. ‘At these times,’ said Dumbledore, indicating the stone basin,’ I use the Pensieve. One simply siphons the excess thoughts from one’s mind, pours them into the basin, and examines them at one’s leisure. It becomes easier to spot patterns and links, you understand, when they are in this form.

Neither Dumbledore nor Harry spoke for a while. Dumbledore was gazing across the room, every now and then placing his wand tip to his temple, and adding another shining, silver thought to the seething mass within the Pensieve.

我从书里抄下这段的时候，脑子里想到的是：似乎这可以是创新的一种方式。认真思考，把有意义的信息抽出来，放到一起。仔细观察，发现其中的模式和联系。