Are you the type of person that learns better by observing or are you more of a hands-on type learner?

I think it’s easiest to watch once or twice then try it on your own, practice makes perfect(:

Hands on for me i think! I prefer to learn by doing, rather than by just observing. Of course i want to observe first, preferably.

Hands on i can never take anything in if i have to watch 1st

I’m definitely a hands-on learner, I really think I learn best when I’m just thrown in there.

I could observe all day but I will never learn until I do it myself.

A hands on learner followed by writing it down on paper.

It depends. Math is definitely a hands on learning subject for me. Actually sitting down and doing the work myself really makes it stick. But something like art or music, I need to see it first, and then I have to practice.

I need to watch it a couple times, but I need to actual try it myself to learn how to do it properly.

From my experience, learning through observation is a skill one acquires only after a great deal of hands-on experience. The hands-on experience provides you with a kind of psycho-motor vocabulary that allows you to understand what you’re seeing. You look back in your past experience for analogs to what you’re observing, you remember how that worked and how it felt, and this makes it easier to anticipate how this new process will work and feel.

This is why it’s so much easier for someone who has already mastered a craft to pick up another through observation. There will be many, many analogous elements, even in seemingly unrelated arts.

I watch a demonstration or listen to a lecture and then practice. I do need to heard everything, from start to finish – one time, then I need to work it, myself.

I need to see what’s being done and then I mimic.

Hands on for sure – it’s so much easier for me to pick things up quicker when I’m doing it and learning as I practice.

Hands on. At my first real job, my boss had the philosophy of “See it, do it, teach it”. That’s stuck with me since.

I am more of a auditory learner. Give me the full course first and then let me take off with it. Kind of like how I cook: cautiously at first and then with reckless abandon!

I learn by observing or by reading, followed by going off and doing it.

I pretty much need to learn hands on. In fact I learn even better if I can do something hands on and then teach it to someone else after the fact. Good question.

@syz That is Exactly how I learn. I do much better if I can do something hands on and then teach it to someone else.

I am definitely a tactile learner. Seeing is believing but touching is for real.

definitely hands-on

I would not touch this question with a 10 foot pole.

@Yarnlady why?

@jmah The answer would be very scatological (april fools)

ah, haha! :)

I tend to hang back and observe until I think I can see how something works or wrap my head around it. Then I like to dig in and try my hand at it to test my perceived understanding of it and expand on it.