Training and Learning Styles

“How can you say that? How can you even think like that?”

“You mean you study with the TV on? That would never work for me.”

Can you believe it? That guy didn't get our point at all!”

How often have you heard people question the ways in which other people perceive and process information? Whether with frustration, amusement, or acceptance, adults realize that working with people means dealing with their distinct information-handling styles. Our different habits and points of view shape our learning styles, which as psychologist David Kolb has pointed out, are closely tied to our problem-tackling and problemsolving styles for getting along in life. It is true: Adults “live and learn” how to cope.

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