I've been trying to figure out what is so confusing about this. It's that I know that I'm auditory, but I hate details and am very intuitive. In college I would not read the book and just go to class to listen to what the prof said. I virtually never wrote anything down. But I would listen for the big picture. If I could tell by the prof's voice that this was an important detail I might scrounge around for a pen and write it down because I'm not good with details. Usually, though, I never had to look at my notes. Once I heard it, it was in there permanently if it was a concept. But if I had to actually memorize something (like lines for a play or the structure of a nucleic acid), that was a real struggle.
So my two defining characteristics are that I learn by hearing and I hate memorizing details but love big concepts. So does that make me auditory/non-linear. I am so not visual!
And then when you asked where I was this time yesterday, I felt myself in bed waking up from a nap and smelled DH cooking dinner. Does that make me kinisthetic/olfactory?
I am so confused!!!!
actually acs, you might welll be auditory/non-linear! Silverman was the first to talk linear/non-linear, but Josh Shane does a great job with the varieties of non-linear thinking. I can't wait until some of it get written down!
You may actually be a kinisthetic learner,(in the end I think that's my best learning style) as the emotion in the teacher's voice, which you may have experienced vicariously as you listened, is what you were looking for. Most folks are good at learning in many ways, but some who are excellent VS, are susprisingly weak in otherways - and I believe this is what Silverman found and was able to discribe. People who use a variety of stratagies to fit various situations are called:"Smart" no?
I think Meta-cognition is a worthy study, but I think the only reasonable goal is to figure out what are the prefered methods, and to develop all one's resources for taking in information.
Make more sense?
Grinity
