Many people who read this description may conclude incorrectly that they are global, since everyone has
experienced bewilderment followed by a sudden flash of understanding. What makes you global or not is
what happens before the light bulb goes on. Sequential learners may not fully understand the material but
they can nevertheless do something with it (like solve the homework problems or pass the test) since the
pieces they have absorbed are logically connected. Strongly global learners who lack good sequential
thinking abilities, on the other hand, may have serious difficulties until they have the big picture. Even after
they have it, they may be fuzzy about the details of the subject, while sequential learners may know a lot
about specific aspects of a subject but may have trouble relating them to different aspects of the same
subject or to different subjects.