How Do You Learn?

I am old enough and have been in education long enough that I am considered a veteran teacher. With that title comes many things including a bigger toolbox of strategies, lots of stories, a whole lot of stuff, and experiences. I've also been around long enough to be privy to a variety of professional development learning. Amongst the learning is that not everyone learns the same. So when I taught in the classroom I was always trying to think about different learning styles in my classroom and how to meet those learning needs. Sometimes that was easy, especially incorporating hands on learning or auditory learning, but sometimes the task seemed daunting. When that happened I fell back into teaching one of two ways:
1. The way I like to learn.
2. The way I was taught.

Fortunately if I used the first option I would reach some students in my classroom because it was likely that I would have some visual learners or learners who liked to learn in small groups.
However, if I chose option 2 I'm not sure I was very effective because I'm not sure my students learned that way.  I will call it the "sit-n-git" method where the teacher talks, the students listen, and maybe the students get to do some kind of work (probably a worksheet) to practice the skill the teacher was talking about. In fact I know the last few years when I tried to teach a lesson this way I was not very successful in engaging students or getting the results I was hoping for.

So I have two questions for my educator friends:
1. How do you learn?
2. How do you teach?