There's an extremely well-known hack: rote learning. It's fallen somewhat out of favour, but it's an excellent way to appear superhuman. * I learnt hundreds of

There's an extremely well-known hack: rote learning. It's fallen somewhat out of favour, but it's an excellent way to appear superhuman. * I learnt hundreds of digits of pi by singing them over and over again until my mouth knew how to form the numbers before my brain caught up. * People in my class at school tried to learn the French verbs which take "être" by means of various different mnemonic devices; I just ignored the tricks and repeated a phrase on and off for a couple of hours. ("Monty arrived at the entrance when all the rest had returned with Tom; Pa's Moorish descent gives him a venturesome sort of nature." for "monter", "arriver", "entrer", "aller", and so on.) * amo/amas/amat/amamus/amatis/amant, and indeed most Latin grammar is still taught this way. * The entire poetry recital field.