Hello and welcome to the Slow Home podcast. This is the podcast all about slowing down and simplifying in a fast-paced world.

My name is Brooke McCallory. Thank you for joining us.

Welcome to episode 190. Wow, we're 10 off the two. The big two. The big two-oh-oh.

Unbelievable.

We're going to focus this week's episode on the last of our learning personalities,

and that's the informal learner, something that you identify quite heavily with.

Yes, I quite like learning in my tracksuit pants.

Let's get into it.

Music I quite like learning in my tracksuit pants. Let's get into it. So an informal learner sees learning everywhere at any time.

Right.

Does that sound like you?

Yes.

Yes, it does.

Which is actually always being quite overwhelming for me.

Okay.

Yeah.

Just the constant influx of information, whether I'm looking for it or whether I'm just observing it.

That's probably where I naturally learn.

It's not necessarily the most effective for me, but that is how I'm naturally inclined to learn.

Yeah, it's interesting, isn't it?

Yeah.

And this series has been really helpful for me because I've started to, I guess, identify, like I said, what is my natural state of learning, which is just give me all the information all the time, wherever I can get it.

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