Hi Hugs: There is a whole course out there for sales people. It teaches them how to reach different types of learners. As you say, some like to read it, some like to hear it and some need both. It is a colour-code system which you apply to personality too. You wouldn't reach your audience of timid types with a boisterous speech unless you had them trusting you first. Same as a slow boring approach wouldn't appeal to those who are more adventuresome. I read through it once but didn't have an instructor nor the videos that go along with the course so probably didn't get all I could have. It was very interesting to see which type you could be and most times people are a combination of more than one colour though one colour would usually stand out. I think there was blue, gold, green and orange.
So yes, I think there are many people thinking and learning in different ways. I am visual and hands on type of learner. I like to write something down when learning or some will be forgotten.
I'm increasingly aware that I don't see the world the way others do. I could never grasp things that are in writing, and had to tape record them, and memorize them. Also, I've always had trouble with concepts.
Recently, I had to grasp the difference between interest rates, as I tried to write a budget for myself, but I could barely grasp that too. I then tried to make an analogy to someone who explained how complicated the air flow systems are in a house. I wanted a vent-less range hood on a stove, and he explained it was possible. I can visualize that, since I'm visually minded.
Then I connected the two, kind of the like an analogy to understand, since I can't grasp speech, it seems. I connected understanding interest rates to the stove I cook on.
Boy do I feel guilty feeling annoyed at that wonderful high school teacher who used analogies! He was just trying to reach those of us who think differently, but I was too slow even for him
I wonder if anyone out there thinks differently, since that source of frustration probably feeds our conditions which we struggle with
