This is Stevea Robbins.

Welcome to the Get It Done guys quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.

Memorizing is hard, but we often need to do it.

Whether it's for presentations or concepts we'll need to refer to,

or that 20-minute wedding toast that everyone will remember.

And nothing teaches you how to memorize words, movement, or song, like musical theater.

Earlier this year, I played a dancing tree in Evil Dead, The Musical.

It's easy to play a dancing tree.

You just stand around with a goofy, tree-like grin, and you wave your branches.

Finding your motivation? Also easy.

Just remember the party you had the night you reached drinking age, or don't remember as the case may be.

Now, I've been cast as Nathan Detroit in Guys and Dolls.

It's my first speaking part, and it's a doozy.

I have dozens of pages of dialogue to remember.

How to memorize quickly. My first instinct was to open page one and start reading. Then go back

and reread, and re-read, each time going a little farther into the script. Eventually, I would

know the whole script because I'd read it a gazillion times.

Unfortunately, that didn't work, and it was boring.

By the time I'd memorized half the scene, I got sloppy,

because going through the stuff I already knew was boring until I hit the new stuff.

The new stuff, the interesting stuff, was always at the end.

Then I remembered what my mother used to tell me.

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