35. Sam
Sam is an imaginative, Type One learner. He
prefers to be connected with others. He
loves interacting in small groups, discussing
meaningful issues. He enjoys stories and
meaningful dialog. He enjoys authentic,
personal trainers who he perceives to have
high integrity.
41. Grace
Grace is an analytic, Type Two learner. She
prefers facts and sequential thinking. She
loves organized lectures, but sometimes
struggles with visionary thinking or random
ideas being interjected into the discussion.
She prefers to stay on track with the agenda.
47. Anita
Anita is a hands-on, Type Three learner. She
loves problem solving. If she never had to
participate in another icebreaker activity
again, that would be fine with her. She often
prefers to do activities herself, to save time
and reduce frustration.
53. John
John is a dynamic, Type Four learner. He
loves spontaneity and the freedom to
explore ideas and likes to interject his own
insights into the dialog. He enjoys trainers
who create dynamic learning environments
and encourage creative thinking.
71. “You didn’t have a blank slate when you walked into kindergarten twenty, thirty, or
forty years ago, one hand gripping your mother’s and the other clutching your
favorite “My Pretty Pony” or your stretched-out “Slinky” or your bag of cat’s-eye
marbles. You might not have known the names of all the colors – turquoise?
chartreuse? magenta? – but you had already experienced them, and that
knowledge was pulsing in your brain, just waiting for someone to name them and
call them into your conscious world. You didn’t have a blank slate when it came to
abstractions, either – you had already figured out that sometimes you got what
you wanted by waiting rather than by throwing a tantrum, even if you didn’t know
that this state of suspension between agony and hope was called patience. You
don’t have a blank slate now when it comes to the concepts most foreign to you,
even if you’re a social worker taking a class in computer encryption or an architect
trying to work your way through James Joyce’s Ulysses.”
- Dr. James Zull
The Art of Changing the Brain