4MAT® Learning Styles
Type Four:
Feelers/Doers
Type One:
Feelers/Watchers
• Seek hidden possibilities
• Seek meaning
• Need to know what can be done with things
• Need to be personally involved
• Learn by trial-and-error, self-discovery
• Learn by listening and sharing ideas
• Enrich reality
• Absorb reality
• Adaptable to change and relish it
• Interested in people and culture
• Enjoy variety and excel in being flexible
• Function through social interaction
• Enjoy taking risks
• Idea people
• Often reach accurate conclusions
without logic
Strength: action, carrying out plans
Goal: making things happen
Strength: innovating and imagination
Goals: self-involvement in important issues,
bringing unity to diversity
Favorite Question: Why?
Favorite Question: What if?
Type Three:
Thinkers/Doers
Type Two:
Thinkers/Watchers
• Seek usability
• Seek and examine the facts
• Need to know how things work
• Need to know what the experts think
• Learn by testing theories using practical
methods
• Form reality
• Edit reality
• Critique information, collect data
• Use factual data to build concepts
• Enjoy hands-on experience
• Problem solving
• Need “real-life” correlation
Strength: practical application of ideas
Goals: bringing their view of the present into
line with the future
Favorite Question: How?
6 Coaching World
• Interested in ideas and concepts
• Thorough and industrious
• Enjoy the traditional classroom
• Function by adapting to experts
Strength: creating concepts and models
Goals: self-satisfaction and intellectual
recognition
Favorite Question: What?