Memorization is a stepping stone on the way to mastery. Reminds me a bit of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuhari https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuhari Th

Memorization is a stepping stone on the way to mastery. Reminds me a bit of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuhari https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuhari The agile people have gotten ahold of this principle, but it's pretty cool. Paraphrased: Shu - learn to repeat and mimic exactly what the master is doing Ha - Once you've (memorized?) learned the movements, then you can innovate and add your own twist to it Ri - Finally, once you've learned to mimic the master and have learned to push boundaries, you can start redrawing them and improvising