Pragmatic Thinking and Learning

Use Your Primary Learning Mode

Now that you have a plan in place, we’ll start talking about how to implement your deliberate learning. Because everyone is wired differently, some ways of learning will be more effective for you than others, so you need to figure out the most efficient way for you to assimilate new information.

Historically, many educators have differentiated three main types of learners: visual (see Figure 17, ​Obligatory diagram for visual learners​), auditory, and kinesthetic .

Figure 17. Obligatory diagram for visual learners

• Visual learners need to see the material—and the instructor. Pictures and graphs all work well for ...