Thread:Vorknkx/@comment-3547390-20150204202730/@comment-3547390-20150413124437

I am extremely terrible at learning visually. Try to give me a demonstration, I will have absolutely no idea what the first step was when you have finished explaining it all. Youtube videos are okay, though I find myself hung up with them very shortly. I have a very short term memory, so I tend to forget almost anything in a demonstration, leaving people to believe I wasn't even paying attention. It is sad when you are heavily focused, taking mental notes, yet can't remember a single thing once they are finished.

Manuals tend to be a lot easier for me to manage, though I do struggle when the writer makes a massive blunder or fails to explain something. Usually that tends to happen in the manuals I read too. I find it a fail when a beginners tutorial on how to use a program is so incorrect that you have to constantly search how to perform the next step even though you have a so-called step-by-step tutorial.

Usually, the most productive way I learn is by hands-on experience. Until I do it myself and have the ability to question things when they come up, I cannot honestly learn.

As for walkthroughs, text usually works better for me. Images tend to make me confused, making me question where I am. I can tell what I am looking for easily when using text.