[gxs]

Memorization is a stepping stone on the way to mastery.

Reminds me a bit of 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