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The Divine Comedy and the Art of Memorizing Epic Poetry w/ Vanni De Luca

The Craft of Memory Podcast

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How to Avoid Burnout and Long Memorization Projects

So, how can one avoid burnout and long memorization projects? What advice would you give? I don't know that the motivation is something that someone has to find for himself. The thing is, once you start, you have to, you have, you can never stop. So tomorrow, you're going to recite by heart. 36 is going to take 20 seconds. But you have to memorize other 18 verses. After a while, you will need 30 minutes to recall the things you already know,. And then one hour, two hours to study new things. It's like 5,300 verses. It's a lot. For example, it was happening with me because I knew

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