文档介绍：CHAPTER ELEVEN
MIND MAPPING - A NEW DIMENSION IN
THINKING AND NOTE-TAKING
For centuries the human race has noted and
recorded for the following purposes: memory;
communication; problem solving and analysis;
creative thinking; and summarisation, etc. The
techniques that have been used to do this include
sentences, lists, lines, words, analysis, logic,
linearity, numbers, and monotonic (one colour)
usage.
Good though some of these systems seemed,
they have all used what you know to be the
dominantly 'left cortical' thought modalities.
When you begin to use these necessary elements in
conjunction with rhythm, rhyme, form, dimen-
sion, colour, space and imagination, your skills in
all mental areas will increase significantly and
your mind will begin to reflect its true majesty.
How often have you seen 'the diligent student' hanging on
every word that his teacher or professor utters, and faithfully
recording each gem in his notebook?! It is a mon
sight, and one that brings a number of negative consequences.
First the person who is intent on getting everything down
is like the reader who does not preview - he inevitably fails to
see the forest (the general flow of argument) for the trees.
Second, a continuing involvement with getting things down
prevents objective and on-going critical analysis and appreci-
ation of the subject matter. All too often note-taking by-passes
the mind altogether.
And third, the volume of notes taken in this manner tends
to e so enormous, especially bined with added
notes from books, that when es to 'revising', the student
finds he has to do almost plete task again.
Proper note-taking is not a slavish following of what has
been said or what has been written, but is a selective process
which should minimise the volume of words taken down, and
maximise the amount remembered from those words.
To achieve this we make use of the 'Key-Word' concept. A
Key-Word is a word that encapsulates a