ML39: How To Find Your Learning Style

Learn about the controversial theme of learning styles and discover the simple tools and techniques you can apply to gain a deeper insight into how you learn. Some of the areas explored include understanding the different activities of learning that suit you best, finding your optimal times for lear

ML39: How To Find Your Learning Style

The idea that we all learn differently has been appropriated by various theorists who suggest that most of us can be placed into one of several predefined categories - or learning styles.

While I’m reluctant to promote one specific category set when it comes to learning, I think the process of looking at them can be helpful in getting you to reflect on your own experience and understand what works best for you.

So in this episode, I’ll outline some areas that I think are important to pay attention to when trying to work out how you learn best, including:

- The activity of learning – Reading vs. Listening vs. Speaking vs. Writing
- The optimal time for learning - The times of day you're wired to learn best at
- The mode of learning - taking a specialist approach vs. a generalist one

This episode will help you identify how you learn best by offering you some simple tools and techniques you can apply to reflect on your personal experience and consider how your learning differs according to the situation you’re in so that you can adapt flexibly to learn the skill you want to in the most effective way.

Podcasts

🎙 ML40: How To Learn a New Skill
🎙 ML38: What I Learned in 2016
🎙 ML15: How To Ask Better Questions

Articles

📄 How The Growth Mindset Can Harm Your Learning and What To Do About It
📄 Why Competing With Yourself Is the Best Way To Learning Anything
📄 The Highs and Lows of Being a Jack of All Trades