This is Kelly Orchard’s Apple A Day. Sixty Seconds on wisdom, success and personal growth.

What is your learning style? There are many assessments that can help determine what our best learning style is. We learn best when we stimulate several senses at once. According to many theorists, there are four learning styles: Visual learning, Auditory learning, Read/write learning, and Kinesthetic learning. These are learning styles that use our senses: seeing, hearing, and touching. It is a good idea to understand our best learning style. Imagine if you were forced to read and write in a classroom setting, or work setting – but your most effective style of learning was hands on practice or listening to a lecture. Perhaps you learn best when you listen to an audio lecture while reading along.

Pay attention to how you learn and implement that in your process regularly. When I invite a client to learn something new every day in order to grow, I always investigate the method with which they learn best. Then, I emphasize that in order to enjoy the learning experience, they need to employ that method. I would never ask you to just “read a book”, if you learned better from interaction. Now, if you love to read, I would definitely encourage you to read something other than a romance novel!

Learning can be fun when we do it in a way that comes natural to us!

This has been Kelly Orchard’s Apple A Day… Now, go out and be fruitful!

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