Long tresses down to the floor can be beautiful, if you have that, but learn to love what you have.
It's always difficult to play a scene of physical violence because you're always afraid that you don't know your own strength and might hurt someone.
Once I'd reached the point where I could squirrel away more than 30 digits a minute in memory palaces, I still only sporadically used the techniques to memorize the phone numbers of people I actually wanted to call. I found it was just too simple to punch them into my cell phone.