You may have heard about Mind Mapping. You may know what Mind Maps are. You may know the Mind Map Principles. You may know the steps to create a Mind Map.
But are you a Mind Mapper?
This question is particularly relevant if you’re on my email list and have been for months. Have you made the transition?
My guess is: Probably Not.
Why is it so difficult to change?
We found that using Mind Maps are easy, but creating them is a bit more difficult.
Teaching you the Mind Map basics is easy. Mind Maps …

I started writing this article on 27 May 2010. It was the day that my wife, Jasmine, graduated with a Bcom (Hons) (cum laude) degree.
I remember back in 2001, when she, with a teaching qualification, told me that she would like to study in an entirely new field. We had just returned to South Africa after spending about three years in The Netherlands and were getting to terms with the conditions back in Africa.
Living in an emerging market and living in a first world country are vastly different.
We had two …

Google has recently changed its interface.
Have you noticed, or have you just continued to use Google like you normally do?
Many people that I’ve chatted to, didn’t even notice, but I am sure that they will quite soon.
Many of the changes have been to help you refine your search better.
I want to talk about one of their changes today – the Google Wonder Wheel.
The image above is a Google wonder wheel. Note how it represents a basic Mind Map.
You access the Google Wonder Wheel by showing ‘more options’ when doing a …

Napoleon Hill, the author of ‘Think and Grow Rich’, stated that you don’t have to be a fortune teller to be able to predict someone’s future. You can do so by asking him or her one simple question: ‘What is your one definite purpose in life – and what plans have you made to attain it?”
He goes on to say that if you asked 100 people this question, 98% will say something like, “I’d like to make a good living and become as successful as I can.”
He believes that while …

There are many websites and resources on Mind Maps and Mind Mapping. Many of them are excellent, including the ones by Tony Buzan, the inventor of the Mind Map.
Why then do I have the audacity to have my own websites on the subject? I’m not a full time Mind Map professional. In other words, ‘I have a day job’.
Well, I’ve been Mind Mapping for over twenty years now and I’ve given a bit of my history on MindMapTutor.com before. Mind Maps have helped me in all walks of life, including …

I’ve had a few comments about the last few articles being a bit too academic. Words like taxonomy, cognitive, psychomotor, etc. don’t roll easily off the tongue.
I’ve tried to make it as simple as possible and to paraphrase the great Einstein, ‘I’ve tried to make it simple enough, but not too simple‘.
I will nevertheless publish an article summarising all of this next week in one simple to read article. I am putting together a Mind Map of the article at the moment and hope that all the principles of the …

Bloom’s Taxonomy is the most well-known for the work done in the Cognitive Domain. This is second domain covered in the four part Bloom’s Taxonomy series. The first domain, the Affective Domain, was covered last week and next week I will be covering the Psychomotor Domain.
Skills in the cognitive domain revolve around knowledge, comprehension, and critical thinking of a particular topic. Traditional education tends to emphasize the skills in this domain, particularly the lower-order objectives.
According to Wikipedia, the online Encyclopedia, a great mythology has grown around the Taxonomy. I hope …