Mr. Schilling spoke of memorizing birds as a camp counselor.
"In The Art of Learning, I read that one of the reasons Josh Waitzkin is so good at chess is that when he was learning to play, he studied endgame first instead of memorizing opening moves," he says.
Select your favorite way of memorizing facts.
Get in the habit of memorizing technical words.
During the initial stages of memorizing the Qur'an one should memorize about 3 lines, 5 is ideal.
Not everyone is comfortable with thinking on their feet, and for those of you who get easily flustered, the art of quick-witted comebacks may depend on memorizing some standard comebacks as a last resort.
Despite memorizing stacks of art flash cards in elementary school; spending countless hours in art history classes and at galleries, museums and auctions; and making pilgrimages to art hotspots as remote as Marfa and Burning Man, I'd rarely come across the kind of work I spent a couple of hours enjoying.
Perez, a sophomore at Orange High School, was taking part in the ancient art of storytelling--not just reading, but actually memorizing the tale and then telling it to an audience.
Yes, both cooking and making a PB&J involve combining certain ingredients in certain ways, but the art of cooking is much more complex than memorizing and following one simple recipe.
Within the storyline, Gordon recounts the series of events that lead to her career as Batgirl, including her first encounter with Batman as a child, studying martial arts under the tutelage of a sensei, memorizing maps and blue prints of the city, excelling in academics in order to skip grades, and pushing herself to become a star athlete.
