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Being a lifelong learner is one of the secrets to happiness, success, and personal fulfillment. This book awakens and enhances the power of learning that lies within us. David Kolb originated the concept of Experiential Learning a systematic approach to understanding how we learn and in this book he and Kay Peterson take what has up until now been a powerful professional development tool and make it accessible to a popular audience.
Peterson and Kolb offer deep, research-based insights into how we learn, what Kolb calls the Experiential Learning Cycle. Then they identify nine specific learning styles and guide you in identifying your dominant style. This will help you understand your strengths and weaknesses as a learner, but they emphasize that flexibility is the key to lifelong learning. So they suggest ways you can expand your repertoire of learning styles. This book is an eye-opening read for anyone who wants to continue to grow and meet life challenges in a transformative way.
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What's Your Learning Style?
Being a lifelong learner is one of the secrets to happiness, success, and personal fulfillment. But what's the best way to become one? Kay Peterson and David Kolb have the answer. They offer deep, research-based insights into the ideal process of learning and guide you in identifying your dominant style. You'll discover how knowing your learning style can help you with all kinds of everyday challenges, from remembering someone's name to adding a crucial professional skill to your repertoire. This book is a guide to awakening the power of learning that lies within each of us.
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How You Learn Is How You Live
Using Nine Ways of Learning to Transform Your Life
Being a lifelong learner is one of the secrets to happiness, success, and personal fulfillment. Acquiring new skills and mastering new abilities enriches our professional and personal lives. But what's the best way for each of us to do that? What's our unique individual approach? David Kolb is one of the most distinguished educational scholars of our time, and in this book he and Kay Peterson make his pioneering work on how we learn accessible and available to a wider audience.
Peterson and Kolb offer deep, research-based insights into the ideal process of learning, what Kolb calls the Experiential Learning Cycle. Then they identify nine specific learning styles and guide you in identifying your dominant style. Do you learn by immersing yourself in direct experience or by thinking about ideas? Are you quick to take action, or do you carefully analyze a situation first? Knowing your preferences is crucial to understanding your strengths and weaknesses and helps you understand and connect with others whose styles are different from your own. But Peterson and Kolb emphasize that your goal should be to familiarize yourself with, and become comfortable using, all nine styles since different situations can call for different approaches. When you achieve this flexibility, you'll also become more mature, more self-directed, and happier.
Throughout the book, Peterson and Kolb apply the Experiential Learning Cycle and the nine learning styles to all kinds of everyday challenges, from remembering someone's name to adding a crucial professional skill to your repertoire. This book is a guide to awakening the power of learning that lies within each of us, a power that can transform our lives at any age and in any circumstance--because in the end, how you learn is how you live.