#5 Learning Styles

Taking this 24-question survey about Learning Styles was very engaging. I hadn't ever thought if I liked working on gardening, but I think I would.

It turns out that above all else, I am a musical learner (94%). I'm surprised it won out over interpersonal learner (88%) and logical-mathematical learner (88%), the two learning methods I thought best describe me.

According to this survey, a musical learner's mantra is "That sounds good to me!" That does very much describe me -- almost everything sounds good to me! …except country music…except Willie Nelson and Johnny Cash and Patsy Cline and a few others. Other than them, blah.

The interpersonal learner's mantra is "I understand what you mean." I'd like to think I am a good listener, and that I am keen on others' emotions and feelings. I think I read body language and speech tones well. I suppose I'm highly social -- I like meeting new people, learning about their experiences and the like. The survey suggests I might do well in a career involving sales; I've thought a little bit about going into technical/engineering sales. I think I'd do well at describing a product technically and enticing a client as to why purchasing said product would be advantageous to them.

Lastly, and my personal favorite, the survey claims I am a strong logical-mathematical learner, whose mantra is "Why? Well, because it's logical." I wouldn't necessarily say I'm a robot without emotion, but I guess I do make decisions based in reason and logic (Have you ever seen Forbidden Planet?). I'd like to imagine that I think about decisions and that I rarely act impulsively (excluding that time last Friday when I bought a round of Jager-bombs for a group of friends; that was impulsive and illogical).

Even though this survey is only 24 questions and took less than 5 minutes, I think it revealed a great deal of information about my learning style. It strangely described my learning styles quite accurately.