Most people realized they learned best via seeing and teachers would tell them, oh you are a visual learner.
Others were hands on and there was a huge sweep across schools to be accommodating for this new craze.
Random side note that kind of relates but doesn't. I also have an awesome olfactory memory! You definitely didn't hear any teachers saying, hey, you are better than hands on, you remember things whenever you smell different scents, you are incredible! I guess that is why I love the show Psych, because Dule' Hill, aka Burton Guster, or Gus has that super power too, but I digress!
I have found that the more you find your strengths and the abilities that suit you, fit you, the sooner you will be able to know how you fit and how to accept what you are not!
I am an auditory learner, so when I study anything, that is the route I go. It is also great to study in the ways that aren't your strong points, but you will be encouraged when you finally get it, understand whatever it is you were trying to master!
Appreciate your strengths, even if they are different, quirky, unique, annoying, etc.
You first have to accept yourself and realize, there is one you, unless you are a twin of course, but again I digress.
Back to the subject and the whole reason for writing this. Now that I have found out that I am an auditory learner, I develop and channel everything through it.
I take in everything and refine and cultivate it! Someone told me that a few of the vocals I did reminded them of Stephanie Mills, so what do you think I did, besides being totally floored? I went and listened to Stephanie Mills, very basic and simple, but I think we overlook the simplistic because we are trying so hard to be something that fits, when you know good and well you stand out, and it is frustrating at times, but the more you learn your strengths, the more you will realize how much you fit, because there is only one you.
I was playing around on the piano about five or six years ago and I asked my Grandmother how I was doing, and she said, it was good, it was good, but ya gotta make it PERFECT! I laughed so hard because I didn't expect that at all. I will never forget her saying that and so to this day, I will continue to be a perfectionist, but a balanced one, I know that is an oxymoron, but nonetheless that is what I am.
I can't justify being a perfectionist but here it goes. I think that you should only be allowed to be a perfectionist when you are trying to master the real you, the genuine, sincere you, when you are trying to master something you are not, there is a problem and a disconnect.
Don't get me wrong, it is great to learn new things and perfect that, but that is not what I am talking about. I'm talking about when you have vanished and your brilliance is hidden because it doesn't necessarily fit (or so you think). That is when there is a problem. Okay the end!
The moral of the story is either find what your strengths are or practice makes perfect!