This photo ran in the Desert Sun online today and cracked me up.

A fun quiz to deter­mine your Learn­ing Style.

My Learn­ing Style is:

• Visual/Nonverbal 24
• Visual/Verbal 26
• Audi­tory 20
• Kines­thetic 24

Your pri­mary learn­ing style is:
The Visual/ Ver­bal Learn­ing Style

You learn best when infor­ma­tion is pre­sented visu­ally and in a writ­ten lan­guage for­mat. In a class­room set­ting, you ben­e­fit from instruc­tors who use the black­board (or over­head pro­jec­tor) to list the essen­tial points of a lec­ture, or who pro­vide you with an out­line to fol­low along with dur­ing lec­ture. You ben­e­fit from infor­ma­tion obtained from text­books and class notes. You tend to like to study by your­self in a quiet room. You often see infor­ma­tion “in your mind’s eye” when you are try­ing to remem­ber some­thing.

Learn­ing Strate­gies for the Visual/ Ver­bal Learner: To aid recall, make use of “color cod­ing” when study­ing new infor­ma­tion in your text­book or notes. Using high­lighter pens, high­light dif­fer­ent kinds of infor­ma­tion in con­trast­ing col­ors. Write out sen­tences and phrases that sum­ma­rize key infor­ma­tion obtained from your text­book and lec­ture. Make flash­cards of vocab­u­lary words and con­cepts that need to be mem­o­rized. Use high­lighter pens to empha­size key points on the cards. Limit the amount of infor­ma­tion per card so your mind can take a men­tal “pic­ture” of the infor­ma­tion. When learn­ing infor­ma­tion pre­sented in dia­grams or illus­tra­tions, write out expla­na­tions for the infor­ma­tion. When learn­ing math­e­mat­i­cal or tech­ni­cal infor­ma­tion, write out in sen­tences and key phrases your under­stand­ing of the mate­r­ial. When a prob­lem involves a sequence of steps, write out in detail how to do each step. Make use of com­puter word pro­cess­ing. Copy key infor­ma­tion from your notes and text­book into a com­puter. Use the print-outs for visual review. Before an exam, make your­self visual reminders of infor­ma­tion that must be mem­o­rized. Make “stick it” notes con­tain­ing key words and con­cepts and place them in highly vis­i­ble places –on your mir­ror, note­book, car dash­board, etc..

I thought this opin­ion arti­cle was great…

Henry Rollins: Tee­ing Off: Help Your­self to Self Help
from The Huff­in­g­ton Post

I can still remem­ber my mother com­ing back to our apart­ment after one of her marathon Erhard Sem­i­nar Train­ing, oth­er­wise known as EST, week­ends and exclaim­ing such cultish bull­shit as, “Be here now!” “You’re an ass­hole!” Well, she got it half right but I remem­ber won­der­ing what grave mis­for­tune befell adults to send them run­ning herd-like into hotel ball­rooms, pay out­ra­geous sums of money to sit in fold­ing chairs and be told for hours, by some­one they had never met, how badly they were fuck­ing up their lives. This group cry was clas­si­fied as self-help. Why you had to do it together with hun­dreds of other peo­ple was beyond me but it made my mother happy in a slightly dis­turb­ing waiting-to-be-beamed up kind of way, so what the hell? Self-help books, CDs, shows, sem­i­nars, and retreats are every­where. Your neu­roses are big busi­ness. The only down­side is per­haps some­day you’ll become strong enough to leave the tem­ple with your wal­let, so self-helpers are always quick to remind you that you’re not quite cured and they should know — they were once like you. Tony Rob­bins was once like me? Is it self-help or is it some­one in a book or on tele­vi­sion inform­ing you as to your fucked-up-ness by remind­ing you of all your mor­tal and prac­ti­cal con­cerns that are an inher­ent part of adult­hood in a broke ass coun­try wal­low­ing in credit debt? Is Dr. Phil going to pay your bills? Can you get an Oprah credit card where you can pay off your debt in hugs?! I think they take the facts of life and make them into abnor­mal­i­ties to make sure you always tune in. Amer­ica seems to need a lot of help. Guys, you don’t suf­fer from erec­tile dys­func­tion, the evi­dence is splat­tered all over your key­board, you’re just no longer turned on by your aging wife’s naked body and now need drugs to per­form. Is that the self-help they’re seek­ing? Dr. Phil! Help! Give me some of that corn­pone home spun bull­shit to get me through!

… yeah, enough said on this. Every­one needs one of these.

Now isn’t this inter­est­ing? I have about 80 com­ments, but I will keep them to myself and just share the data.