ABSTRACT
People learn in many ways. Learning some things – French irregular verbs, for example – feels like a struggle; other things, like walking and talking and finding your way around your neighbourhood, come effortlessly. Sometimes people don't know what they've learned until after they've learned it. Some wag once observed that there are two kinds of people: those who divide people into two kinds, and those who don't. It seems also that there are two kinds of learning. Some skills are painstakingly learned in the full spotlight of conscious intention, while others seem to slip on board out of the shadows like stowaways while our conscious awareness has its back turned. Conscious learning usually proceeds by the 'Analysis, Practice, Feedback' cycle. Unconscious learning invokes the special characteristics of the nondominant hemisphere, usually the right, which thinks in a different language less exclusively reliant on words.
