Preparing for 2010 – Make it a year of learning and growth
Preamble I can’t believe that it was a decade ago that we were talking about the next millennium. It was November 1999, with just over a month to go before every computer system in the world could be a potential time bomb. Just a month before that, I was on board a flight to The Netherlands with my wife Jasmine, my six year old son and my four month old daughter to embark on what was to be the biggest adventure of my life. Having grown up on the ‘wrong side of the line’ in Apartheid South Africa, many opportunities were not...
read moreMind Maps are an expression of Radiant Thinking
In my article on the Six Thinking Hats, I used the term Radiant Thinking. Tony Buzan, the inventor of the Mind Map, calls Radiant Thinking ‘The Major Evolution in Human Thought’ in The Mind Map Book. He describes the brain as a Radiant Thinking Association Machine with five major functions: Receiving Holding Analysing Outputting Controlling These five functions support and reinforce each other. The first three are expressed by the fourth, while the fifth function keeps everything together. How well does your thinking methods...
read moreDo Mind Maps Really work?
This article is in response to an email from one of my subscribers. He mentions a few problems that he has with Mind Maps, which I hope to address here. If he has the problem, then the chances are that many of you may have the same or similar problems. I would like to start by stating upfront that this is not a defence of Mind Maps. Mind Maps and Mind Mapping, like any other technique, has its champions and its detractors. Tony Buzan, the inventor of the Mind Map, goes to great lengths to prove that linear is bad and Mind Maps are good. Yet...
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