Who am I?
I am Eva Linden, daughter to a science and technology teacher, Don Linden. I am also a daughter to a nurse, Suzanne Linden, and a sister to Karin Linden, an eighth grader at Putney Central School. I am a hockey player, a soccer player, a musician, and a reader. I am a photographer, usually a mathematician, someone who will listen, and a friend. Basically, I am who I am.
Strengths
After taking a quiz on how I learn, I found out that my strongest type of thinkind is musical. This means that I supposedly like to sing, hum, listen and play music. I do like to sing, although I have a terrible voice and cannot hit one note with it. I don’t hum, but I always listen to music while I do my homework, read, or do anything. I also play the clarinet and piano. I am good at the piano, but only mediocre at the clarinet because I only started a few years ago, while I’ve been playing the piano for most of my life. Being a musical learner also means that I am good at picking up sounds, remembering melodies, that I notice pitch and rhythms, and that I am good at keeping time in music. These are all very true with me. With these results, I learn best through rhythm, melody, and music.
These results greatly surprised me because I have never considered myself as being overly musical and I never really paid much attention to how I responded to music. Recently I have been increasingly more aware of how much I critique music when I listen to it; always commenting when someone hits a wrong note, are off key, off beat, etc.
Middle Strengths
Something that I found which didn’t surprise me was that I learn well in many different ways. I scored high in most of the learning styles. My scores for my middle strengths were mostly 80s with a few 70s.
I got 80s in logical, intrapersonal, linguistic/verbal, and naturalist thinking. Logical only surprised me a little, but I had thought that I would get a higher score because I have always been very good at such things like math, figuring things out, using patterns and relationships, using reasoning and logic, and problem solving. All of these are involved in logical thinking. Recently, though, my math skills have been decreasing.
I was also not surprised that I am an intrapersonal learner because I have always liked to work alone and to pursue my own interests instead of the interests of other people. I have also always been very self-conscious in my actions and my thinking. This means that I learn well working alone and at my own pace, which is usually a fast pace.
I am also very strong in my linguistic thinking because I love to read, like to write, and sometimes tell stories. I am usually good at memorizing names, places, dates, poems, etc. One poem which I will probably never forget is the Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll. “Twas brillig, and the slithy toves-- did gyre and gimble in the wabe-- all mimsy were the borogroves,-- and the mome raths outgrabe....” Because I am good at this kind of thing, I learn well by saying, hearing, and writing words.
I was surprised that I am a naturalist thinker because that includes liking to be outdoors, animals, geography, weather, and interacting with my surrounds. It also includes being good at categorizing and organizing things, planning trips, preservation and conservation, and biology. I do like most of these things and am okay at them, but I never thought it was to such a great extent. Apparently I learn well by studying natural phenomenons, learning about how things work, and working in natural settings.
The types of thinking in which I got 70s in were kinesthetic and visual. Kinesthetic thinking means that I like to move around, touch, talk, and use body language. It also means that I’m good at physical activities and crafts and that I learn by touching, moving, and interacting, I know that I like physical activities and crafts, but I’m don’t do much with touching, talking (I’m usually very quiet), or with body language. I also don’t think that I learn that well by touching and interacting. I would have expected my score to be lower in this type of thinking.
I also expected my score to be lower in visual/spatial thinking because this includes drawing, building, designing, creating things, daydreaming, watching movies, etc, all of which I’m not too great at. I am good at reading maps, charts, mazes and puzzles and that type of thing.
Weaknesses
My greatest weakness is interpersonal thinking which includes liking lots of friends, talking, big groups, being good at understanding people, leading others, communicating, and manipulating and mediating conflicts. I do not fit in with any of these things. I do like friends, but I don’t need lots of them. I certainly don’t like to talk all of the time, only when I feel like it or when there is something real to talk about. I hate talking about things with absolutely no meaning. I also am not good at understanding people, and I’m not good at leading others because I am so quiet. The thing that fits me the least is manipulating conflicts. I try to stay out of conflicts unless I can do something to resolve them. When I can’t do anything to help, I find that it is better to let them work it out themselves. This shows me that the way I learn the worst is through sharing, comparing, and relating data or information ot others, and interviewing people.
