33 & 36
33. How do they learn about the world–what is their preferred learning style? Hands-on learning with trial and error? Research, reading, and note-taking? Observation or rote memorization? Inductive or deductive reasoning? Seeking patterns and organization? Taking things apart and putting them back together? Creative processing via discussing, writing about, or dramatizing things?
Kled is often assumed to be ignorant, if not pigheaded when it comes to learning. Be it a new art, skill, or what have you. Though, that’s the furthest thing from the truth.
Kled merely has a certain way of learning. Dusty old tomes and lengthy books fail to catch his attention. They’re just the capsuled writings of an old scholar, a prepackaged experience that while it is important, is ultimately dull. Kled prefers to relish in the learning himself. He rather be at the scene and find these things out for himself rather than reading about them later on. Because of this, he’s hands-on when it comes to learning. He will fail one thousand times, sure, but the knowledge of those failures is invaluable.
Anybody close to him will eventually come across a plethora of notebooks and journals containing his experiences. While he doesn’t consider himself a scholar at all, he does keep notes of important information, should he eventually forget what he’s learned. And, often times, he will pass these on to those he considers important to him-- should they need them.
He’s surprisingly analytical, for what he is.
36. How much do they rely on their minds and intellect, versus other approaches like relying on instinct, intuition, faith and spirituality, or emotions? What is their opinion on this?
He values a healthy balance of both, if he can. Though by his own nature as a person, he’s far more impulsive and likely to react by emotion rather than cold logic. He’s able to be calculating, cunning and plotting, but in the end, he’s far more reliant on his gut feeling and intuition and instinct when it comes to decision making.
He does not pretend to be someone who he isn’t, he plays to his own strengths. And, in his lifetime, his instincts have proven reliable. He’s escaped certain death time and time again thanks to experience rather than logic, and because of that he values instinct far more than cold, hard knowledge.