Mind Maps

Stumbled into Java Lords for the 4th day in row this morning and continued browsing over this book entitled Mind Maps. I never really knew that individuals are capable of training their mind to think from different hemispheres at different times. With everything else in life, I was a little skeptical of this book at first, since its written by one author and comes off as almost like a 'name brand' philosophy. Alot of the visuals in the book seem a little bogus since i'm accustomed to medical anatomy books, but besides the anantomy illustrations everything is pretty informative. The mind mapping devices such as the illustration above was fascinating to use as a guide when I was reading the book. At one point I was trying to read every word in the order in which I would find most interesting, it ended up being one big thought derived from somewhere in the neighborhood of twenty words.

It was pretty interesting to learn about note-taking and what to take notes on and what not to. The book was addressing the idea that avoiding monotonous words and single-color phrases helps the brain collect important data without over working brain cells, by searching to find key terms and information. Most teachers from middle school- present day stress the importance of jotting only the important material you here, but this books specifies what exactly 'is' the important information.

Another interesting concept about Mind Maps is how mind expansion the brain works at full potential. Since its reported as impossible to use our brains at full potential because of all the different distractions going on at the present moment, (ie myself thinking about 8 million different things while i'm writing this, along with cars and birds making noise) brain cells fail to latch on to different brain cells. The goal is for us to focus on one individual thought at a time, thats how more not full potential can be acheived. Pretty interesting.

-d