Kolb's Learning Theory

Question: Read and understand Kolb’s theory of learning and use it to trace some significant learning moments which you have experienced in life.

President Thomas S. Monson once said, “ You are never too young to learn, you are never too old to change”. Learning takes place at all stages of life; it is a continuous process that individuals have to go through regardless of age. Kolb’s learning theory, it serves us as a guide that enable one to understand how learning takes place. Kolb 's learning theory is a very useful tool, where it not only assists me in the academic area; it also helps in developing my interpersonal skills.

The learning theory contains four stages. Firstly, a significant experience is that of being unable to sustain a

Why I never had a sustained a long term friendship with someone? Why people just come and goes out of my life so quickly? I started to develop this problem in my primary school times. During my primary school times, I made a lot of friends, giving in all my trust and share my secrets with them. At the point of time, I believe all friends are worth trusting. However, sadly to find out that my secret is no longer a secret. They misused my trust towards them and publicly disseminate it to everyone. This resulted in me to develop mistrust towards everyone around me. I had difficulties in placing trust towards people I meet in life, I become defensive in the way I present myself. Illusions were formed, thinking that everyone is going to hurt me. Even though I still do feel the need of make friends and tries to trust them. However, they always end up drifting away from me. It leads to the beginning of my introvert personality and isolation. The realization of the seriousness of the problem when my closest friend gave up on me. It is at a point where I no longer found anyone who I can approach whenever I am in needs. I have no one that I could trust with. I was all alone, all by myself. I begin to recall the process of this friendship, the countless times I was warned of my behavior and attitude relationship handling the process. My ignorance results in the consequences that I had to face alone. Kolb 's learning

I realized the lacking of security towards other had lead to building up my defensiveness. The high tendency of condemnation of towards others, becoming blunt in the expression of words. Words expressed without the thought of how other would have felt and only tries to defend one. That had hurt many as a result, drifting away from me. A typical egocentrism in my personality classify problems does not lie with me. But those people whom walkouts of my life. People tend to drift away from my life and similarly I escape from when the fear arises in me. Is not that I did not try to make any changes; changes were made during the secondary school. However, the actual reason for the cause of the problem was wrongly identified. At that period of time, I thought it was just myself being unable to keep up to the change, unable to keep up with trends my friends were following. Never once cross my mind that the problem lies with me. Thus, the same situation repeats itself. I came to a conclusion, where there were three main factors that led to the interpersonal problems. The first factor is the lack of confidence towards other. The second factor is the directness of my way of expression. The third factor is the egocentrism personality I