What kind of learner am I?

     I'm not really sure.  I have been giving this a trememdous amount of thought lately as I gear up to prepare for another run at the bar exam.  Conventional (and antiquated) wisdom produced three traditional categories of learners: Kinesthetic (learning by going through the motions), Auditory (learning from listenting), and Visual (learning from seeing), or some hybrid of the above styles.
   
     Au Contrare mon frere.  Further research suggests there are far more complex and various styles of learning than the traditional three.  This article is a good introduction to many of those categories.  They include people who are Musical, Verbal-linguistic, Logical-Mathematical, Spatial, Interpersonal, Intrapersonal, etc. . . . Read the article and pass it along.  It is very informative.


     I never quite figured it out in Law School.  There were times I used memory recall and I could successfully hear the voices and phrases of my teachers from specific lectures.  Unfortunately, there would be times where the information was in my mind but unbearably irretrievable.  I would sometimes study by repeating things to myself so many times I could not forget.  As much as I tried, I was never able to visualize pages and words I had read. 
     
      I've read somewhere that developing a strong memory has to do with developing strong synapses in the brain.  The more people commit something to memory, the stronger that connection is in the mind, thereby allowing the pathway to retrieve that information to be very strong and accessible.  Thus, when the mind needs to recall it, it will be easy to do because of connection that has been built to retrieve said piece of information.

     In, Law School, the fading moments of "glory" I had were during Appellate Advocacy, Moot Court, and Mock Trial.  When I tried for both the Moot Court and Mock Trial organizations, I researched, wrote my speeches, and physically went through the process of making my oral argument, opening statement, and direct examinations dozens of times over.  I got to the point where I could do an appellate argument for up to an hour if I went uninterrupted (which is rarely ever the case).  During my opening statement I had actually forgotten a peice of my presentation, but because I had gone over it so many times I was able to ad lib with something else that was relevant to get myself "over the hump."  The same went for competitions of the same nature.

     I learn new songs on my guitar sporadically.  I learn them best by playing them.  I don't exactly read music, and i only figure things out by ear on rare occasions.  I am definitely bodily-kinesthetic I think. I may also be Asbract-reflexive, inter alia.  This is a subject I certainly would like to bmore informed about.