Originally Posted by Relentless

Did some more thinking about this topic after logging off last night. One thing that occurred to me is that a talent like that would likely affect how you learn best as well.

For example, I'm an auditory thinker. One of the reasons I write well is that I can 'hear' the text as it would sound in a conversation. I also got through countless hours of academia pretty much without ever writing down any notes in a notebook. If I missed a class I was screwed, because I was able to assimilate information much more easily from a lecture than I ever could from making or reading class notes.

Eventually I made the conscious decision to write very few notes and pay more attention to the lecture during the lecture. Others are the exact opposite. They successfully learned the same information, often skipping class, and relying almost exclusively on written notes. To this day, I really enjoy hearing a good audio book while driving, but I've been told by others that they can't keep the stories straight unless they read it for themselves.

I'm wondering if your ability with images goes hand in hand with being a visual thinker who learns best from graphs, charts, infographics and the like....