What’s Your Learning Style?

 People love a neat label.

Kinesthetic learner.
Auditory learner.
Visual learner.
Bookworm learner.
PowerPoint survivor.

Pick your favorite and wear it like a badge.
That is the modern way.

The problem is, none of it holds up outside a classroom poster.

Learning style theory, at least the version that tries to sort us into tidy buckets, has been debunked over and over. Not because people do not learn differently at different moments, but because no one learns only one way. We are not potted plants. We are toolboxes.

Think about a pilot. You do not learn to land an airplane by reading a manual alone. You listen to instructors. You fly the aircraft. You feel the machine respond. You watch the instruments and the runway. You reflect on what almost killed you and do not repeat it. That is not a style. That is survival.

Think about building a bridge in Papua New Guinea at seventeen.
You learned by swinging a hammer.
By watching others swing it better.
By listening when the old hands corrected you.
By remembering the mistakes your thumbs still sting from.
That is not one lane. That is every lane open.

I prefer to use whatever method gets the job done. Sometimes that is reading a book until the ink becomes memory. Sometimes it is sitting in a room full of sharp people and letting the arguments sharpen me too. Sometimes it is one on one with someone who has scars where I have questions. Often it is rolling up sleeves and putting hands on the thing itself.

Learning is not a personality quiz. It is a pursuit. You throw everything you have at the target until the target is hit.

So what is my learning style?

All of them.

Every last trick in the human playbook.
Seeing. Hearing. Doing. Teaching. Failing. Adjusting.
Repeating the cycle because mastery likes to hide behind boredom.
Pushing past the point where most people settle.

I learn from books.
I learn from people.
I learn from mistakes. Especially those.

Learning is not about style. It is about hunger.
Feed the hunger, and the brain will figure out the method.

Which raises a better question.
Not how do you learn.
But how badly do you want to?

I write

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