@discordthreats
I'll wager the father put too much pressure on the kid, and when the day came (ha), the stress made him focus on not dissapointing his father and not on what he learned, making him forget at the moment.
@Dei_Septentrion
"Meditating is basically dissasociating through repeated and uninterrupted self-inquiry."
As my uncle puts it. Contemplate over your surroundings and sound. Why it is there, how it came to be... and then pull your attention towards your "self". But nothing is one size fits all.