Lesson 3 ~ Mind Mapping

-A mind map is a diagram used to represent words, ideas, tasks, or other items linked to and arranged around a central keyword or idea. Mind maps are used to generate, visualize, structure, and classify ideas. It is a very popular technique with applications across many fields, a useful technique that improves the way we take notes, and increases our creative problem solving. It usually used by individuals and corporate teams for different aims or purposes.

We can use mind map to explore and develop ideas for a specific problem, use it to think, take notes during discussions and summarize books and papers. We can quickly identify, prove and understand the structure of a subject. Mind maps encourage creative problem solving, summarizing information, and thinking through complex or difficult problems. 

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A logical mind map, the standard one that most people use either to organise thoughts or think of ideas. This kind of mind map is the one where other related topics branches out from the main topic. This is not so good for creative thinking as we usually end up connecting stereotypes.

An associated mind map is one where even though the topics are linked in a way, it's not really related to the main subject. They are more random and at a glance may seem like it doesn't have anything to do with the main subject.

Some mind maps taken from the internet..

A mind map my friend did for me along with a portrait of me

(I don't really drive like a crazy person :P)

After that, we had to do a mortar and pestle exercise. Throwing away the usual uses, we had to think of other crazy and creative uses for it.

1st idea - 

2nd idea -

And yes, I know the 2nd picture doesn't even look like a sun-dial... so you can stop laughing now XP