The most important thing I learned about this sort of memorizing is that it is not useful to me, and that let me stop worrying about it. Sure, there might be so

The most important thing I learned about this sort of memorizing is that it is not useful to me, and that let me stop worrying about it. Sure, there might be some cases where it could be, but for the most part this technique overfits to the competition and doesn't transfer to my day-to-day. For things I want to memorize day to day I don't have to memorize a long list of things and recall it directly, I might have to build up a list of things I can recall, but I have time to build up that list, and I can use spaced repetition (Anki) for that.