“That’s just not how I learn” is sometimes true and sometimes just a nicer way to say “I don’t want to.”

Preferences about how you take things in are real, and some of them matter a lot. They also make very comfortable cover. The same sentence can be an honest description of what your brain needs or a polite exit from something hard and boring, and from the inside those two feel almost identical. The tell is usually whether you have actually tried the method or just decided about it.

Run a small test before you file something under does not work for me. Give the approach one honest attempt, done properly, and then judge it. If it still does not fit, you now know that for real.