Since I've been working at Career Services, I've been poking my nose into various career... services, many of which are all about the knowing of thyself. Since I really like things that are about me, I'm really enjoy this. I did a test recently about learning styles, and much to my surprise I came in as a mildly visual learner. I thought I was a tactile learner, or at least an auditory one, what with my extensive background in music. On the other hand, I'm a designer. Which is primarily visual. But on the third hand (wait, how many hands is that?) I don't visualize things well - they're all fuzzy in my mind's eye, I don't see pictures. So I thought, well, definitely not a visual learner.

However, one of the things that I do love to do is to tell stories to make points. I analogize a lot. I find patterns and map them onto other things. It is probably vastly annoying to people who don't think the same way I do, because my mind works in a sort of gestalt - nothing makes sense until WHAM, it all does, and I act. Or, in many cases, tell a story. Turns out that this is a key hallmark of visual learners. Who knew? Maybe that explains why I've never liked audio books. Or sports.

PS: I turn 28 tomorrow. I take cheques. Made out to "Congratulations, you're officially in your LATE 20s. WHERE DID ALL THE TIME GO? GO GO GO! IT IS RUNNING OUT! THE TIME! AUGH!"