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Learning style is your personal way of moving through the learning cycle. It also determines how you approach life. Do you prefer trusting your own feelings or thinking? Are you inclined to observe and listen to others, or to act immediately?
Let's find out what learning styles are, how they can help us in mastering new material.
What it is?
Your learning style is not an innate and once and for all characteristic; rather, it is a certain state at every stage of life. In popular psychology, it is customary to approach the definition of both others and oneself in the context of opposite parameters: a person, in fact, is either an introvert or an extrovert. This is an outdated approach that presupposes a stereotyped view of both oneself and others: it gives a rather superficial portrait of a multidimensional unique personality that does not allow for change, learning and development.
Most develop a preference for one learning style, and a few more are used as fallbacks. Many also try to avoid some of them.
9 learning styles
Read the full descriptions of each of the nine learning styles and try to determine which ones you prefer, which ones you use as backup, and which ones you try to avoid. In our learning cycle, we tend to start with our favorite and most comfortable style and apply that style in times of severe stress.
Feeling
Using the Feeling style, you get involved in what is happening, make connections, use intuition. You are a great team player and build trust with others. You do not feel discomfort with the manifestation of emotions, you manage them skillfully, even in stressful situations.
Skills:
- Formation of trusting relationships
- Engagement and passion
- Forming connections on a personal level
- Free expression of emotions
Imagining
By using an imaginative style, you show concern, trust, empathy, and creativity. You feel comfortable in situations of uncertainty, you like helping others, suggesting new ideas, creating an image of the future.
Skills:
- Search for new ideas
- Showing empathy
- Attention to other people's opinions
- Vision of new opportunities
Reflective
using a reflective style, you exercise patience, caution and restraint, allowing others to play the main role. You listen without undue bias and collect information from various sources. You are able to look at a task from different perspectives and identify fundamental problems and questions
Skills:
- Unbiased hearing
- Collecting information from various sources
- Identification of fundamental problems and issues
- Analysis of the problem from different points of view
Analyzing
By using the Analyzing Style, you are taking a structured, methodical, precise approach. Think everything over in advance to minimize the number of mistakes; collect and summarize information to form the most complete picture; critically analyze and analyze the situation. You are methodically analyzing data.
Skills:
- Advance planning to avoid mistakes
- Organization of information and the formation of a complete picture
- Data analysis
- Using theories and models to explain what is happening
Pondering
By working in a decisive style, you show a realistic look on things, responsibility and straightforwardness. You define goals and find practical approaches to problem solving. Are able to focus on a specific task.
Skills:
- Defining practical solutions
- All focus of the main goal
- Search for solutions to problems
- Confidence in your own point of view, even on controversial issues
Acting
Using the acting style, you get everything done; you are determined, courageous, achievement-oriented. Concentrate on goals and find ways to get things done, even when you are pressed for time. They are able to achieve their goals with limited resources.
Skills:
- Meet the deadlines
- Find a way to get things done
- Goal-oriented and get things done
- Implement plans in conditions of lack of resources
Initiating
Using the initiating style, you are open and natural, able to quickly get over the setback and keep moving forward. You are looking for fresh opportunities and get involved in new work without looking back at the past
Skills:
- Flexible adaptation to changing conditions
- Influence and motivation towards others
- Ability to find new opportunities
- Ability to continue working after failures
Balancing
Using a balancing style, you notice blind spots in a situation, skillfully smooth out differences and contradictions between people. Find the right resources expertly and adapt to changing priorities.
Skills:
- Search for blind spots in a situation
- Smoothing out differences between people
- Adaptation to changing priorities
- Ingenuity
Please note that the names are phrased in participle form, and this emphasizes that each of the stages is a process, not a state. We do not call a person a thinker, but we say that he prefers the Reflecting style. But people who use this approach and are really thinking more are quite capable of using other styles as well.
Style will help you find an approach to learning
Having figured out which style you prefer and what opportunities it opens up, you will be able to better understand yourself and learn to connect the chosen method to the requirements of the situation. It is also easier to explain to yourself why in certain situations it is not possible to achieve serious results and how to improve the work.
Knowing the peculiarities of the favorite method, you can see why some topics or tasks seem interesting, while others are almost hateful. Learning about their preferred learning style helps to understand why some people live with a fixed mindset, that is, with a once and for all idea of their own abilities.
Many of those who did not study very well in school may consider themselves not smart enough, but having figured out which style is preferable for them, they realize that perhaps the whole point is that it is more convenient for them to study differently from the traditional school.
Based on the book: "Live and Learn".
Let's find out what learning styles are, how they can help us in mastering new material.
What it is?
Your learning style is not an innate and once and for all characteristic; rather, it is a certain state at every stage of life. In popular psychology, it is customary to approach the definition of both others and oneself in the context of opposite parameters: a person, in fact, is either an introvert or an extrovert. This is an outdated approach that presupposes a stereotyped view of both oneself and others: it gives a rather superficial portrait of a multidimensional unique personality that does not allow for change, learning and development.
Most develop a preference for one learning style, and a few more are used as fallbacks. Many also try to avoid some of them.
9 learning styles
Read the full descriptions of each of the nine learning styles and try to determine which ones you prefer, which ones you use as backup, and which ones you try to avoid. In our learning cycle, we tend to start with our favorite and most comfortable style and apply that style in times of severe stress.
Feeling
Using the Feeling style, you get involved in what is happening, make connections, use intuition. You are a great team player and build trust with others. You do not feel discomfort with the manifestation of emotions, you manage them skillfully, even in stressful situations.
Skills:
- Formation of trusting relationships
- Engagement and passion
- Forming connections on a personal level
- Free expression of emotions
Imagining
By using an imaginative style, you show concern, trust, empathy, and creativity. You feel comfortable in situations of uncertainty, you like helping others, suggesting new ideas, creating an image of the future.
Skills:
- Search for new ideas
- Showing empathy
- Attention to other people's opinions
- Vision of new opportunities
Reflective
using a reflective style, you exercise patience, caution and restraint, allowing others to play the main role. You listen without undue bias and collect information from various sources. You are able to look at a task from different perspectives and identify fundamental problems and questions
Skills:
- Unbiased hearing
- Collecting information from various sources
- Identification of fundamental problems and issues
- Analysis of the problem from different points of view
Analyzing
By using the Analyzing Style, you are taking a structured, methodical, precise approach. Think everything over in advance to minimize the number of mistakes; collect and summarize information to form the most complete picture; critically analyze and analyze the situation. You are methodically analyzing data.
Skills:
- Advance planning to avoid mistakes
- Organization of information and the formation of a complete picture
- Data analysis
- Using theories and models to explain what is happening
Pondering
By working in a decisive style, you show a realistic look on things, responsibility and straightforwardness. You define goals and find practical approaches to problem solving. Are able to focus on a specific task.
Skills:
- Defining practical solutions
- All focus of the main goal
- Search for solutions to problems
- Confidence in your own point of view, even on controversial issues
Acting
Using the acting style, you get everything done; you are determined, courageous, achievement-oriented. Concentrate on goals and find ways to get things done, even when you are pressed for time. They are able to achieve their goals with limited resources.
Skills:
- Meet the deadlines
- Find a way to get things done
- Goal-oriented and get things done
- Implement plans in conditions of lack of resources
Initiating
Using the initiating style, you are open and natural, able to quickly get over the setback and keep moving forward. You are looking for fresh opportunities and get involved in new work without looking back at the past
Skills:
- Flexible adaptation to changing conditions
- Influence and motivation towards others
- Ability to find new opportunities
- Ability to continue working after failures
Balancing
Using a balancing style, you notice blind spots in a situation, skillfully smooth out differences and contradictions between people. Find the right resources expertly and adapt to changing priorities.
Skills:
- Search for blind spots in a situation
- Smoothing out differences between people
- Adaptation to changing priorities
- Ingenuity
Please note that the names are phrased in participle form, and this emphasizes that each of the stages is a process, not a state. We do not call a person a thinker, but we say that he prefers the Reflecting style. But people who use this approach and are really thinking more are quite capable of using other styles as well.
Style will help you find an approach to learning
Having figured out which style you prefer and what opportunities it opens up, you will be able to better understand yourself and learn to connect the chosen method to the requirements of the situation. It is also easier to explain to yourself why in certain situations it is not possible to achieve serious results and how to improve the work.
Knowing the peculiarities of the favorite method, you can see why some topics or tasks seem interesting, while others are almost hateful. Learning about their preferred learning style helps to understand why some people live with a fixed mindset, that is, with a once and for all idea of their own abilities.
Many of those who did not study very well in school may consider themselves not smart enough, but having figured out which style is preferable for them, they realize that perhaps the whole point is that it is more convenient for them to study differently from the traditional school.
Based on the book: "Live and Learn".
