How You Learn Is How You Live: Using Nine Ways of Learning to Transform Your Life

By Kay Peter­son and David A. Kolb

In How You Learn Is How You Live, Kay Peter­son and David A. Kolb part­ner to pro­vide an engag­ing look at how to renew your nat­ur­al abil­i­ty to learn. It is a guide to awak­en­ing the pow­er of learn­ing that lies with­in us, show­ing how we can increase our capa­bil­i­ty to learn from expe­ri­ence through­out our lives, in each and every moment.  How we make sense of it all to find mean­ing, pur­pose and direc­tion in our lives is expe­ri­en­tial learning.

If this book marks your intro­duc­tion to Kolb’s pio­neer­ing expe­ri­en­tial learn­ing the­o­ry of how you learn, you are in for a life-alter­ing expe­ri­ence.  In this book, David A. Kolb and Kay Peter­son make expe­ri­en­tial learn­ing acces­si­ble to every­one who wants to con­tin­ue devel­op­ing through­out life.

How You Learn Is How You Live presents the nine learn­ing styles that define the ide­al way to learn.  The book will help you to iden­ti­fy your own learn­ing style pref­er­ences and build flex­i­bil­i­ty to use all the styles.  In doing so, you will be able to reach your high­est poten­tial and trans­form your life.

“Kay Peter­son and David Kolb bring near­ly a cen­tu­ry of research and over 4,000 stud­ies on expe­ri­en­tial learn­ing to our fin­ger­tips in this prag­mat­ic and pro­found guide to liv­ing life – all of it – as a learner.”
- Ronald E. Fry, PhD, pro­fes­sor, Depart­ment of Orga­ni­za­tion­al Behav­ior, Weath­er­head School of Man­age­ment, Case West­ern Reserve University