Mind maps Part two

Hello to all!

I really was going to write something else this time, but I did a bit of research  on mind maps and thought the subject could do with another visit.

You already know that mind maps can be as simple or as complicated as you may like. So can their names. For instance, spider mind maps, cloud mind maps, square mind maps, brain mind maps, the list is endless. But all these terms mean exactly the same. A main part, joined by lines or arrows to a smaller part of the same shape.

Don't worry, when I was at University, and first introduced to the term, it made no sense whatever. Nor did it help that several of the lecturers had a favourite mind map which never remotely resembled any other lecturer's. I am quite sure he/she simply wanted to keep us in a state of awe and fear. One even used designs of three-pointed stars for chemistry, and five pointed ones for physics. To us newbies, that was plain mean.

 My last year of primary school did not involve any type of cluster designs at all, as it did not include very much physics, so it was probably committing dumb suicide to sign up for the classes, but hey! we knew everything and that was going to be a breeze. Such is the confidence of seventeen-going-on-eighteen year olds.

Anyway, that's a story for another time.

It doesn't matter what shape you use, as long as it works for you. I personally like the brain or cloud shape, because I am such a lousy drawer, and those two can be almost any shape, so long as they are vaguely like clouds or brains and the offspring match them!

The worst circle maps were those that enclosed abbreviations for chemical substances. Put them in brains or clouds and I was fine. Just NOT circles. I have never found out why either. Just perhaps my squirrelly brain! Seriously though, these simple diagrams can assist you a great deal in getting rid of procrastination too. This is where most of my writing comes from.

If you would like an article or two written, contact me on taylor.cheryl54@yahoo.com. I am working on a website, but haven't got it down properly yet! Very soon though.