I suspect it just means that you're an aural learner and too easily distracted (maybe a very mild form of ADD or hyperactivity?) by visual input which you don't learn from. I'm much the same. I've found that I appreciate visual things (art, beautiful people, scenery), but it doesn't stay in my memory. And I get very easily distracted by the TV, even when the sound is off. It drives my Mum mad when she's on the phone with me! ;o)
I've got some learning techniques quizes up on my blog (in my last quizes post) if you wanted to check my theory out.
- OLS
Weird. I mean, unique.
How come when you are driving around, trying to find an address, you have to turn the radio down?
I think you got the same thing, only reversed.
So not everybody's memory is pictures? Then how can you recall what you've read?
I had the opposite experience. If I sat in the back, my mind wandered if it was boring, or I would get sidelined pondering a point made in the lecture and stop listenting to it. If I sat in the front, I listened to what was being said, paid attention to others' questions, etc.
There is an explanation, though I don't know if there is a word, for the phenomenon of having to turn down the radio while one is driving around trying to find something.
Is there a name for this?
Spooky-Learning-At-A-Distance?
I used to short-circuit sitting in the front row of the classroom and seeing the teacher's all-too-frail humanity so close-up. I couldn't get past the littleness of it, the one lone individual tiny and vulnerable, trying to get all that knowledge through all those thick adolescent skulls. I had to get my seat assignment changed because the tears made it impossible for me to see the blackboard.
Not as unusual as you'd think. Malady's description is accurate and applies to me too. An example is: if I watch a film from the front of the theatre and there is a lot of dialog, I won't be able to follow the plot because the huge moving images overwhelm my attention.I was 48 years old when I finally figured out that I was an aural learner. It's OK as its a positive in some areas.