Hey everybody this is Steve, are you curious about what your visual auditory
kinesthetic learning style is, and how that can help you? Well don't bother! OK
that's it that's video done
now! In this video I'm gonna be explaining why a lot of people think
that diagnosing your learning style as visual auditory or kinesthetic, why they
think it's useful, I'm gonna explain why actually isn't really that useful, I'm
gonna explain why believing your visual auditory kinesthetic diagnosis is
actually a limiting belief, and stick around to the end because what I'm also
going to be explaining is if that's not particularly useful what is? But why
listen to me on this topic anyway? Well the whole idea of visual auditory
kinesthetic learning styles is really a cross over from neuro linguistic
programming or NLP, now I'm an advanced master practitioner and trainer of NLP,
I've been involved with that field for nearly 20 years I've done tons of
training in my time with some of the greatest trainers in the world, and I've
seen many times how these ideas get distorted and misapplied, and by the way
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So what are visual auditory kinesthetic learning styles and why do people think
it's useful to diagnose that? We have visual auditory kinesthetic ie feeling
and also olfactory which is smell and gustatory which is taste, sensory
systems, when we are doing cognitive activities, when we're thinking, when we're
learning, when we're making decisions, we're using those faculties, we're using
our ability to make pictures in our minds, to hear sounds, to have internal
dialogue and comment on things, to have feelings in response to those things and
the key thing is we have all of those sensory faculties, we have all those
thinking capabilities, and we use all of them, now that doesn't mean to say that
we've developed them in equal quantities, it may well be that we've exercised our
visual faculties more than we've exercised our auditory faculties for
example, and we shouldn't be surprised if somebody who is an artistic painter has
developed a particularly acute visual capability because of what they do and
because of what they're exercising all the time, they will also probably have
developed a very strong visual kinesthetic overlap, we shouldn't be
surprised if a musician has developed a particularly acute auditory faculty, in a
particularly acute audio kinesthetic pairing, we shouldn't be surprised if
somebody who practices logic has a particularly strong auditory digital
faculty, that's the self talk, because people who do logic do a lot of verbal
reasoning in their heads, and that's really no different to the fact that
some people might have developed their arms more than their legs or developed
their shoulders more than their hips, and so this lends itself to the idea of a
preferred representation system but that shouldn't change the fact that we do use
all of them, even if we have a preferred one or two ultimately we still use all
of them, now visual auditory kinesthetic learning styles is sort of that
preferred representation system idea but applied to learning, so the idea is is
that if you have a particularly strong visual capability and therefore you can
do more with your visual capability the idea is you are a visual learner, and
therefore you'll learn best when you learn with visual cues, similarly if you
have a auditory preference the idea is that you will learn best using auditory
cues, now while there's some validity to that and there's also an argument to say
use your strengths rather than suffer your weaknesses, so if you have a
strength for the visual capability or you developed learning strategies which
use the visual capability as a dominant factor then the idea is utilized that
strength but this whole thing led to some limiting ideas, it's led to
the idea that some people put forth which is that you should take the visual
kids and separate them from the auditory kids and should teach the visual kids
visually and you should teach the auditory kids auditory, look only do that
if you seriously want to limit their potential. So here's why it's not
necessarily that useful to diagnose a visual auditory kinesthetic learning
style, mental tasks are never completed inside just one representation system, if
you think about lifting lifting a box is not an arms OR legs OR back activity,
it's an arms AND legs AND back activity and most mental strategies in a
similar way they're not visual OR auditory OR kinesthetic, they're visual
AND auditory AND kinesthetic, I mean just think what would happen if you try to
lift a box with just arms or with just back or with just legs, it wouldn't work.
So here's why believing a static visual auditory
kinesthetic diagnosis could be a limiting belief I see this happen all
the time and its sad, I see people who go around,
they've hypnotized themselves into thinking, I am a visual learner, and that
means I cannot do things that require auditory learning and cannot do things
that require kinesthetic learning, it limits what people can do it limits what
people think they can do. But also if you engaged only in visual learning
activities because you've diagnosed yourself as a visual learner, what you
are not then learning is how to orchestrate all of your faculties, you're
learning to strengthen only one it's like being somebody who has stronger
arms and therefore only develop their arms. So
what's better than diagnosing a static visual auditory kinesthetic learning
style? Well it is to stretch all of your faculties and it is to stretch the ways
you can use them in combination, let me tell you about one of my learning
strategies and whether there's a clue there too I said one of my learning
strategies, most people don't just have one most,
people have learned several learning strategies, now one of mine is if I'm
learning a complex system I like to start with a flow diagram now that
already starts to imply that there's a visual entry point, but what you'll
see me do is you'll see me trace the flow diagram with my fingers and you'll
see my lips move because I'm talking myself through the picture, so I've got a
visual input being translated into auditory language, so that's a visual
overlapping to auditory, and then every so often you'll see me stop and you'll
see me look into the distance, what I'm doing there is I'm taking the static
picture and the auditory information that the auditory digital information
there's self-talk that I've used to explain this to myself and translating
that into an imaginary 3d moving system, so this is what I'm doing visual but
whereas this is visual external this is visual internal this is using my
imagination and then what I will do is I will test how I feel about that my
kinesthetic response to see if my kinesthetic response is telling me that
I've modeled it correctly. So that's a learning strategy that goes visual
auditory internal dialogue visual imagined and kinesthetic test.
Or which learning style would you say I am so what's better than having a
static diagnosis is knowing what set of learning strategies you've learned to be
strong with, what those strategies are and the context in which they are most
useful, but what's also better than just falling for a static diagnosis
is the idea that look if we're using our representation systems together to
achieve tasks, then why don't we stretch all of them, you know, if I have a
particularly strong visual but a weak auditory why don't I develop the
auditory? And why don't I stretch the number of combinations in which I know
how to use these things, why don't I stretch my ability to use
visual and auditory together or auditory and kinesthetic together and you know
what this points at it points at the usefulness of physical and artistic,
activities as well as science activities because nothing develops the visual
auditory kinesthetic faculties working together then something like reading and
playing music nothing stretches the visual kinesthetic
pairing better then a visual activity that has a feeling responds like art so
what a lot of people say rather myopically in my opinion that artistic
subjects are not high value yes they are because they're stretching those
faculties and if you have stronger faculties and stronger ways to use them
in combination you will be able to learn more things you will to solve more
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