Many skills involve some declarative learning (i.e. memorization) on the road to mastery. You can approach that declarative learning explicitly, or you can simp

Many skills involve some declarative learning (i.e. memorization) on the road to mastery. You can approach that declarative learning explicitly, or you can simply accumulate it over time while practicing whatever you're trying to learn. In many cases the former can be much more efficient and get you to mastery faster, so if that's your goal it's useful to know strategies for memorizing things.