Who is the Right Learner?

 Robert Allen says that individuals learn in three ways: looking,

listening and doing. There are individuals who rely mostly on sight, others on
their sense of hearing and still others who learn by doing. Certain measurements
exist to gauge one’s most predominant learning style. We’ll deal briefly with
some of these practical tests:

For instance, after watching a movie, which part do you remember most

• the dialogue, the action sequences, or the things you did, like driving to the
  cinema, buying the movie pass and popcorn? If you answered “dialogue”, that
  makes you a listener. If you answered “action sequences”, you are a looker, and
  if you answered the “things you did”, that makes you a doer.

Of course we need more scientific tests to determine how a person
learns and what type of learner he is – a listener, a looker or a doer. Two or
twenty two questions will not result in an accurate assessment, but Allen’s
examples at least give you an idea of his learning theory; and as we said earlier,
learning is an essential ingredient of memory.

A learner who listens is one who enjoys sounds – especially words –
and finds powerful meanings in them. Listeners tend to remember best what
they’ve absorbed through their sense of hearing, rather than from any other
sensory perception. Lookers, on the other hand, react best to visual stimuli so
anything they see is understood and retained more efficiently. The doers are
individuals who like to roll up their sleeves and dig into the trenches. They put
emphasis on practical experience; to them, doing things hands-on holds more
meaning.

Some believe that it is rare for anyone to learn things exclusively in
one style. He says the best form of attack would be to combine all three learning
styles and adapt each one to a given situation.

You can have the best tutor for memory building, but if you can’t
concentrate, it would be difficult to have much of an efficient memory.
Concentrating is a difficult art to master; look how much technology has taken
over our lives. In the mind-training courses he took throughout his life, Allen
says there is one technique that might help some individuals develop their
concentration skills. This one is adopted from a Far Eastern culture, he says, and
is a century-old practice, but is still valuable. It sounds easy enough but your
initial efforts at actually doing it may seem futile:

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