The best way to learn is to exhaust yourself with your prefered style of learning, then switch to another "style" to pull yourself out of the crater and to the edge of developing different opinions based on a new perspective. So don't discount your preferences but keep yourself open to exploration which usually takes us out of our comfort zone, where our memory will engage based on facts not forseen, accidental discovery, errors in assumptions, and outright new insights into the problems we are working on.
Greg Verbois