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This seems to resonate with my experience, although I feel myself bristling due to the baggage of the word memorization.

Although sometimes “memorization” doesn’t happen because you sit down to do it but rather that you keep using the same things over and over when solving problems that they become internalized. I find that to be a more fruitful path towards understanding that I don’t want to call memorization but it is.

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Maybe you should first try to separate the negative feelings you have towards the word "memorization" and the word itself "memorization". There's nothing bad about memorization. This sort of negative bias about inconsequential things is something that can easily hold us back from things that could help us further ourselves.

Tell me about it. Trying to get better every day.

Thanks for reading!

And agreed -- it's this exact realization that led me to both this method and title

Imo this negative connotation has made many people refrain from calling internalization what it is

But acknowledging that it's memorization has actually made me more efficient at learning, since I can now consciously look for the heuristic, codify it, and try to commit it to memory

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