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I found this Click Here on youtube... and noted that unlike many here, this guy cannot learn from books, but rather needs to learn from Tv, DVD etc to be able to absorb it...

I also have this problem which made school a major nightmare for me. I have terrible trouble learning from words, yet can absorb things very easily in documentaries.

Yet, so many here practically have photographic memories, from what I see, and read books like there is no tomorrow.

Anyone else here have an easier time learning visually and aurally, than from books?

I barely touched books in college. Reading requires too much effort on my part as in order to understand what I'm reading, I have to be able to visualize it, and I can't divide my attention between the two effectively to get anywhere.

I remember trying to read heart of darkness once for an english class and having to stop halfway through because my head was throbbing so bad.

Sure I took notes and what not, but I hardly ever studied. Everything I learned I had to learn from lectures. I was lucky in that I was able to find classes where the professor didn't require you to read the books in order to learn the concepts of what was being taught.

yes....am learn far better through visual and tactile means.
am can read well,but understanding the meanings of them is a different matter.
am need to be able to feel things,see them and hear them to make sense.

I am glad to know I am not the only one in this.

Ditto. I read books for pleasure but reading them for learning purposes isn't my best means of retaining the information. I do write well, so I've been told many times over the years, and I can learn from the internet just fine...but books and I don't get along quite as well.

I love books for pleasure, and I think learn from them normally. I'm best seeing something and doing it for myself, then probably second best reading about it (particularly if it's listed as step by step instructions). I'm worst at remembering stuff if it's told to me.

I can only learn from books when I'm obsessed over the single subject; the floodgates open. Otherwise, it's like reading blank paper.

If I'm to learn academically (something that I'm not interested in), I need someone reading it out to me; I remember things I hear even if I'm not interested in them. It's a good thing, but like everything, it's double-edged; if there's people around me I cannot focus on the teacher.

My gift and my curse with academia.

I'm terrible at learning from books. Everything I read I have to try to picture it in my mind, and if I have not seen something similar, it doesn't register at all. I'm just looking at random words on a page.... unless it's an interest of course.

I learn by best doing it or seeing it done so reading to learn something usually doesn't work very efficiently for me. Like someone mentioned, I read more for pleasure than learning. Obviously this approach isn't compatible with most school subjects. I have to get big college books for classes but I'm not capable of "reading" them. It's just way too much effort for my brain and eyes. I skim through them and pick up what I can though or else I just find other ways to research the topic.

Actually, for a lot of college subjects, I depended upon the professors lectures over the textbooks almost all of the time.

In this particular case, watching the video of the boy talking made the points that he was making more clear and memorable than if I were reading a transcript of the video.

I used to read more for pleasure, until the internet came along.