How mind-maps make you smarter!

As it turns out, mind-maps are like your thoughts drawn out on a sheet of paper. This is brilliant because that is how your brain actually works! All our brains remember by association, imagination, and memory. Studies have been deducted on students that have resulted in the loss of roughly 80% of memory regarding 4 years of recent schoolwork in just 3 months. Mind-maps work very well because it is just how your brain works. It will understand what you are trying to learn much better if we take advantage of how it is supposed to process information in the first place. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyJrrUIocUI

Turning boring information into awesomeness!

How many times have we looked at our books we have to study from and instantly get bored and frustrated?
It's okay ladies and gentlemen, I have your back on this one!
When we write things down we hardly understand what is really going on. It is even hard to work with the material you have. To get around this, we need to express our information in a different way. We need to synthesize all our boring notes into what we need to actually learn. We need to write how we think so eliminate all unnecessary processing. By using colour to lead you point-to-point, make your mind map. This makes it much more visually stimulating and informative. Looking at your mind-map drills pictures into your memory which is much more effective than remembering what you have read in a book which title you most probably forgot. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kj6DrkygyE

Learning a language by using mind-maps!

Learning vocabulary can be very hard because your brain works by processing images, imagination, and association. Making notes can also be counter-productive because it does not take advantage of how we learn naturally. Making a mind-map and using one word per branch will relate words to images and experiences to make sure one does remember the new vocabulary taking place. Learning word-by-word will make the brain place the new vocabulary into what we already know, making the foreign language not so foreign anymore. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVYDcTNI-_s

Mind-mapping tutorial

The Steps of Making a Mind-Map:

1) Find a purpose (be specific)

2) Put topic in the center of the mind-map

3) Write key word that relates to topic (this is your first of many branches)

4) Only find related information

5) Write all ideas and keep extending branches

Tips:

- Try to re-write the mind-map to remember it

- Ask yourself what you know about the topic and write everything down

- Do not leave anything out! You can edit and skim it after it is finished

- Try doing it the next day to see what you have remembered

- Keep trying!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvnbKEHOQIY

Novel writing using mind-maps

Writing a novel can be quite irritating being of all the content the author has to develop and fit in. Ideas are often vastly scattered during production and everything may seem overwhelming for the majority of the time. One solution to this is to make a mind-map of each chapter to see how ideas can connect and where they might lead to. This is accomplished by illustrating how your brain thinks to remember ideas and help organize yourself. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ouEes-72Ek&feature=related

RSA Animate's use of mind-mapping

For those of you that are unfamiliar with RSA Animate, they are mind-mapping geniuses that help produce videos that are easier to understand by drawing what the speaker is talking about. This has been proved to stimulate our brain to understand what the topic being presented is all about. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NugRZGDbPFU

Mind-mapping outside of work!

Mind-maps are often used to track down day-to-day goals to associate them with related errands to pursue them all at once in an organized manner, which can save a lot of running around time. By mind-mapping all our ideas and errands down, one can go through each day completing them in a flowing manner instead of being scattered. This leads to having a much more efficient day while increasing the effectiveness of your habits. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8TPpV3Fan4&feature=relmfu