i didn't even know we had a hook there
Jun. 21st, 2013 03:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_siobhanI was in University the first time I heard about different learning styles. How some people only need to see something to absorb it and how others need to hear it described. Visual vs auditory or something like that. It makes a lot of sense to me that different people will process input differently, but I don't seem to really fit either of those two models so I didn't think too much about it.
It was many years later that I figured out that I'm a tactile learner. You can show me something a billion times, I can read about and hear it described, but nothing is going to stick until I touch it. Before cellphones I remembered all phone numbers with my fingers - I can't tell you the number but I can dial it[1]. I still do that with any passwords that have to be entered into a keyboard. I figured out in school that I can remember every word of a lecture if I write it down while the Prof is talking. I never actually have to look at those notes, it's the act of writing that creates the anchor[2].
So the way I organize my life is pretty closely tied to how my memory stores information. Every object I pick up has a limited number of designated places where I put them down again. My memory relies on my fingers to know where something was the last time I touched it.
On the plus side I almost never lose things.
On the minus side, this system completely breaks down when you live with other people.
This post has been brought to you by the 15 minutes it took me to find my belt this morning
[1]I once really had to give a number to somebody and had to resort to writing the numbers on a piece of paper as they would appear on a phone and then tapping out the answer. Much to everybody's amusement.
[2]Too bad I didn't figured it out in time to save my average.
It was many years later that I figured out that I'm a tactile learner. You can show me something a billion times, I can read about and hear it described, but nothing is going to stick until I touch it. Before cellphones I remembered all phone numbers with my fingers - I can't tell you the number but I can dial it[1]. I still do that with any passwords that have to be entered into a keyboard. I figured out in school that I can remember every word of a lecture if I write it down while the Prof is talking. I never actually have to look at those notes, it's the act of writing that creates the anchor[2].
So the way I organize my life is pretty closely tied to how my memory stores information. Every object I pick up has a limited number of designated places where I put them down again. My memory relies on my fingers to know where something was the last time I touched it.
On the plus side I almost never lose things.
On the minus side, this system completely breaks down when you live with other people.
This post has been brought to you by the 15 minutes it took me to find my belt this morning
[1]I once really had to give a number to somebody and had to resort to writing the numbers on a piece of paper as they would appear on a phone and then tapping out the answer. Much to everybody's amusement.
[2]Too bad I didn't figured it out in time to save my average.