Showing posts with label mind maps. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mind maps. Show all posts

Tuesday, 10 November 2015

How to Take Notes in Class: The 5 Best Methods - College Info Geek

Hardhead aka Knapweed with a spear thistle behind.


5 different note taking systems.
1. The outline method.
2. The Cornell method.
3. The Mind map method.
4. The flow method.
5. Write on the slides method.
You can TCR music, poetry or self development material for internal knowing.
I can Turbo Charge Read a novel 6-7 times faster and remember what I’ve read.
I can TCR an instructional/academic book around 20 times faster and remember what I’ve read.
Introduction to Turbo Charged Reading YouTube
A practical overview of Turbo Charged Reading YouTube 
How to choose a book. A Turbo Charged Reading YouTube
Emotions when Turbo Charged Reading YouTube

Advanced Reading Skills Perhaps you’d like to join my FaceBook group ?

Perhaps you’d like to check out my sister blogs:
www.innermindworking.blogspot.com     gives many ways for you to work with the stresses of life
www.ourinnerminds.blogspot.com          take advantage of business experience and expertise.

To quote the Dr Seuss himself, “The more that you read, the more things you will know.
The more that you learn; the more places you'll go.”

Monday, 15 June 2015

'Innovative learning and thinking techniques' at Mind & Its Potential 2011 Tony Buzan

Finding the very best nectar from this scabious.

Use your head -- innovative learning and thinking techniques to fulfill your potential
• How can you use your brain to best advantage?
• What can you do to enhance memory both during and after learning?
• Creativity -- why does it appear, like memory, to naturally decline with age?
• The power of Mind Maps to enhance your thinking skills
• Revolutions of the mind: the agricultural and industrial ages have passed -- what age are we in now?
Tony Buzan, UK, the world's leading author on the brain, learning and thinking skills, Mind Map originator, International Best-selling Author: Use Your Head and The Mind Map Book
Creativity> kindergarten @ 95%
                 junior            @ 75%
                 senior            @ 50%
                 university       @ 25%
                 adult              @ 18%
The brain naturally likes colour.
Notes  taken in black or blue ink - exclusively!
Using colour is not childish it is child like!




Introduction to Turbo Charged Reading YouTube
A practical overview of Turbo Charged Reading YouTube 
How to choose a book. A Turbo Charged Reading YouTube
Emotions when Turbo Charged Reading YouTube
Advanced Reading Skills Perhaps you’d like to join my FaceBook group ?
Perhaps you’d like to check out my sister blogs:
www.innermindworking.blogspot.com         gives many ways for you to work with the stresses of life
www.ourinnerminds.blogspot.com               which takes advantage of the experience and expertise of others.
www.happyartaccidents.blogspot.com         just for fun.

To quote the Dr Seuss himself, “The more that you read, the more things you will know.
The more that you learn; the more places you'll go.”

Friday, 17 April 2015

How to Take Notes in Class: The 5 Best Methods



You need to know what you are doing to use one of these.





Outline method
Mind Maps
Cornell Method
Flow Method
Write on the slides Method.
Introduction to Turbo Charged Reading YouTube
A practical overview of Turbo Charged Reading YouTube 
How to choose a book. A Turbo Charged Reading YouTube
Emotions when Turbo Charged Reading YouTube
Advanced Reading Skills Perhaps you’d like to join my FaceBook group ?
Perhaps you’d like to check out my sister blog:
www.innermindworking.blogspot.com         gives many ways for you to work with the stresses of life

To quote the Dr Seuss himself, “The more that you read, the more things you will know.
The more that you learn; the more places you'll go.”

Wednesday, 3 December 2014

3rd set of Turbo Charged Reading posts




Welcome to the third set of Turbo Charged Reading posts.




















4 Problems with Turbo Charged Reading. 





















               
    4 integrated ways to learn a foreign language.























































6 research-tested ways to improve your memory. 





















and who will benefit from using this natural ability? 




Reading Problems and Solutions ABC World News  Youtube


















TCR Mind Tree from Success Level 1 
of the 5 level tuition package.




















































The first 21 posts describing Turbo Charged Reading - enjoy.  
















Turbo Charged Reading posts and  YouTubes 22 to 33. 

Introduction to Turbo Charged Reading YouTube
A practical overview of Turbo Charged Reading YouTube
How to choose a book. A Turbo Charged Reading YouTube
Emotions when Turbo Charged Reading YouTube

Advanced Reading Skills Perhaps you’d like to join my FaceBook group ?
Perhaps you’d like to check out my sister blogs:
www.innermindworking.blogspot.com         gives many ways for you to work with the stresses of life
www.ourinnerminds.blogspot.com               which takes advantage of the experience and expertise of others.
www.happyartaccidents.blogspot.com         just for fun.

To quote the Dr Seuss himself, “The more that you read, the more things you will know.

The more that you learn; the more places you'll go.”

Wednesday, 26 November 2014

Whatever has Mountain Dew got to do with Memory, Learning and Confidence?

I chose my photo of a pile of gigantic tyres because they fit in entirely with today’s topic.
Tyres come in all sorts of different sizes and types for specific purposes
~ purpose/intent is the driving force of TCR and it is continually checked and refined
for your needs of the material being read to be read efficiently
~ hence the different tread for different situations.
You use consistent patterns when TCR that are suitable for your current requirements.
As an individual you have the ability to be flexible and mix and match to pile up your memory
and finally the important point is that memory is built up in layers.


Whatever has Mountain Dew got to do with Memory, Learning and Confidence?

Mountain Dew was his language, his experience, his security.
My computer programmes, chocolate, purchased and created aids belonged to the confused world.

Memory.
While memory is built up in layers it is stored in bits in apparently random places
and re-created each time it is recalled.
I understand that a CD or DVD does not store information in a sequential pattern
but in various segments across the disk; and yet the music or film is recalled in perfect order.
If you load information: a,b,c,d,e,f,g onto a disk and a little late your delete b, c and f then the next pieces of information you load will fill up those empty spaces first and not necessarily in linear order.
I think that this is one of the ways that a creative combination of ideas can emerge – eureka!
Additionally you can think of memory recall as a chain that has been build up of sequences.
If a link or segment is missing or defective then the whole cannot be recalled.
In such I cases I would say, “I read something somewhere that said something along the lines of ….”
Then they say that if you want to really know a subject then you teach it. :)
Into this statement is built in the detailed learning of the subject so that you can explain
or demonstrate it externally and that repetition of knowledge builds with repeated practice.
Repetition or habit is one of five proposed learning gateways to the mind.
For these reasons when Turbo Charged Reading you pour a whole book into your innermind
in a few minutes then you give your new and growing neurons time to collate, cross reference 
and highlight the information you want at this point in time before bringing this required information into your conscious working mind. Therefore from your very first contact with this information, 
either printed or from an electronic screen, you do so in sequence
with each layer building on the last and so being an efficient use of your time
as you do not elicit information that is not to be used at this time.
Also with each successful layer followed you are building confidence and long term memory.
When discussing memory there is the state and none state theory of memory.
Where is memory is stored; is it confined within your scull or in every cell of your body?
However, right now we are concerned with the memorising of information, clearly and long term.

Does memory come before learning?
I leave that for you to debate.
Learning is acquired in layers, by process and practice leading to increasing confidence.
Confidence is being able to perform a skill whereas self esteem is having a secure inner regard.
Learning can enter the mind / body by a proposed five routes.
Trauma, habit, hero worship (think pop stars, advertisements etc), authority figures (think parents, law, religion etc) and alpha (in hypnotherapy we use the authority of the self during the alpha state 
to access the other four areas of learning.)
The focused learning state in any area of life uses the Alpha wave state in the brain
as concentration, absorption, fascination, the reduction of extraneous thoughts.
The learning state of alpha is natural and starts to initiate as soon as you close your eyes
or focus increasingly inwards on a subject, novel, film, conversation etc.
In doing any of these activities you could be considered to be in an enhanced environment.
Each time you experience something your brain immediately starts laying down the foundations
for its memory/recall and this requires a new neural network – or extra space on the CD.
This is a purely physical matter; think of someone who’s been confined to bed
and you recognise that their muscles atrophy or an elderly person who’s hormones have altered
and therefore does not have the capacity of the young or think of a person who’s family history indicates a ‘weak’ heart; if any of these people increase their physical exercise 
then new muscles and veins etc are created.
Similarly the great ‘they’ took a number of mice from their boring cage and put them into a cage 
with interesting activities. The enhanced activity mice stayed in this enriched environment
for shorter and shorter periods of time so that eventually the scientists found that
the building of neural networks started as soon as the mice entered the enriched environment.
It is not simply a case of use it or lose it but also of continuing or starting to build your abilities.
With Turbo Charged Reading after you have poured all that information into your inner mind
and submitted a request for certain information that satisfied your purpose to be recalled
for your first layer of learning recall; you then get out of the way and give your neural network
the chance to organise itself and create the necessary new neurons to satisfy your purpose.

Confidence.
I was engaged to help a 13 year old get past his problems with algebra 
(the fact that algebra is a complete mystery to me is irrelevant).
My intent/purpose was to find the point just before his confusion; that being the point of his security.
I found fractions as the first point of insecurity, the frightening quagmire with no way out.
I used my skills, my ingenuity and we got nowhere. I then grabbed the empty bottles of Mountain Dew he and his father had been drinking and put a fraction of water in one of them.
Mountain Dew was safe, it was part of his understanding and it had nothing to do with fractions.
Light dawned and very rapidly he was able to bring into his confidence 
the things his teachers had been trying to teach him.
I find it interesting that when you work with critical incident de-briefing you take the person
back to their point of confidence before the trauma, or series of little traumas,
and ‘lock’ them into their confidence. Another description of this is to ‘anchor’ them
in the safe experience of themselves before the distressing incident; or the last straw
that broke the camel’s back if there has been a series of accumulating stresses.

How is this expressed in Turbo Charged Reading?
By building up the sequence of Turbo Charged Reading using the language
with which you are most familiar, expressed as ‘your primary and secondary learning modalities’.
In ‘English’ that means starting with the simple and building into the more detailed how-tos
of each stage: You pour the written information into your inner mind thus bypassing your eyes
and conscious mind. Unexpectedly to your experience and expectation, at this stage,
the information is unavailable to you; you have no earthly idea of what you have read 
as its bypassed your conscious mind and is now part of your inner knowing – your store 
of information. You then do nothing while you let your innermind create the necessary neurons 
that catalogue the information read and cross reference it with what you already know and you create new music or beer from what you already know but have not combined in that way before.
Finally you bring the information that you require at this moment into your conscious awareness.
These sequences are then built upon as your knowledge (learning), security (confidence)
and memory (recall) are extended (enhanced).

The usual last way of eliciting and recording the information you wish from your written material
is to create a mind map and mind maps are an excellent and efficient way
for most people to store and recall information.
Therefore I start the first Success Level of the five Turbo Charged Reading levels
by creating mind maps or in this case ‘Mind Tress’ during our first session.
As a mind map covers the major learning styles (your safe language/experience) of being visual
and I’ve seen some mind maps that are works of art.
Some people prefer their ‘mind maps’ in the business process mapping format or as bullet points.
For those who learn best by hearing I tell stories that builds up dialogue in your mind 
and these stories are copied with a few words onto the mind map.
All TCR Success Level written work is repeated as MP3s for convenience
and for those who prefer to listen as opposed to reading at this point .
For the kiensthetic and those who like the security of notes and handouts you are physically building up a representation of your learning in a way that satisfies your personal experience 
while encompassing the necessary structure of the learning process.
TCR uses the body as part of the reading process.
For those of you who use olfactory and gustatory points of reference
I’m afraid that you’ll have to add these memory aids yourself and are encouraged to do so
as research values these modalities, especially for revision and exams.
So with our Turbo Charged Reading partnership we start with the end in mind
and build in everything to ensure your success.
Turbo Charged Reading: Read fast>>>Remember all>>>Years later

You can TCR software and engineering manuals for spontaneously recall – or pass that exam.
I can Turbo Charge Read a novel 6-7 times faster and remember what I’ve read.
I can TCR an instructional/academic book around 20 times faster and remember what I’ve read.
Introduction to Turbo Charged Reading YouTube
A practical overview of Turbo Charged Reading YouTube  
How to choose a book. A Turbo Charged Reading YouTube
Emotions when Turbo Charged Reading YouTube

Advanced Reading Skills Perhaps you’d like to join my FaceBook group ?

Perhaps you’d like to check out my sister blogs:
www.innermindworking.blogspot.com         gives many ways for you to work with the stresses of life
www.ourinnerminds.blogspot.com               which takes advantage of the experience and expertise of others.
www.happyartaccidents.blogspot.com        just for fun.

To quote the Dr Seuss himself, “The more that you read, the more things you will know.
The more that you learn; the more places you'll go.

Wednesday, 9 July 2014

Memory and Business Process Mapping


Memory is built up in layers. M'reen

Whatever has Mountain Dew got to do with Memory, Learning and Confidence?
Written by M'reen

Mountain Dew was his language, his experience, his security.
My computer programmes, chocolate, purchased and created aids belonged to the confused world.

Memory.
While memory is built up in layers it is stored in bits in apparently random places and re-created each time it is recalled. I understand that a CD or DVD does not store information in a sequential pattern but in various segments across the disk; and yet the music or film is recalled in perfect order.
If you load information: a,b,c,d,e,f,g onto a disk and a little later your delete b, c and f then the next pieces of information you load will fill up those empty spaces first and not necessarily in linear order.
I think that this is one of the ways that a creative combination of ideas can emerge – eureka!
Additionally you can think of memory recall as a chain that has been re-build using out of sequence parts that are linked.
If a link or segment is missing or defective then the whole cannot be recalled.
In such I cases I would say, “I read something somewhere that said something along the lines of ….”
They say that if you want to really know a subject then you teach it as you have re-built the memory chains many times. Into this statement is built in the detailed learning layers of the subject
so that you can explain or demonstrate it externally and that repetition of knowledge
is build with repeated practice.
Learning to ride a bike requires different layers of skill and confidence.
Repetition or habit is one of five proposed learning gateways to the mind.
For these reasons when Turbo Charged Reading you would elicit the information in sequence;
each layer building on the last and also being efficient in time as you do not elicit information
that is not to be used at this time. In addition with each success you are building confidence.
There is also the state and none state theory of memory – but not now.
Followed by: where memory is stored; is it confined within your scull or in every cell of your body?
However, right now we are concerned with the memorising of information, clearly and long term.

Does memory come before learning?
I leave that for you to debate.
Learning is acquired in layers, by practice and with increasing confidence.
Confidence is being able to perform a skill whereas self esteem is having secure inner regard.
Learning can enter the mind / body by a proposed five routes.
(1) Trauma, (2) Habit, (3) Hero worship (think pop stars, advertisements etc), (4) Authority figures
(think parents, law, religion etc) and (5) Alpha (in hypnotherapy we use the authority of the self
during the alpha state to access the other four areas of learning.)
The learning state of alpha is natural and starts to initiate as soon as you close your eyes or focus increasingly inwards on a subject, novel, film, conversation etc. In doing any of these activities
you could be considered to be in an enhanced environment. Each time you experience something your brain immediately starts laying down the foundations for its memory/recall and this requires
a new neural network – or extra space on the CD. This is a purely physical matter; think of someone who’s been confined to bed and you recognise that their muscles atrophy or an elderly person
who’s hormones have altered and therefore does not have the capacity of the young or of a person
who’s family history predicts a ‘weak’ heart; if any of these people increase their exercise then new muscles and veins etc are created. The great ‘they’ took a number of mice from their boring cage
and put them into a cage with interesting activities. The enhanced activity mice stayed in this enriched environment for shorter and shorter periods of time so that eventually the scientists found that the building of neural networks started as soon as the mice entered the enriched environment.
It is not simply a case of use it or lose it but also of continuing or starting to build your abilities.
With Turbo Charged Reading, after you have poured all that information into your inner mind
and submitted a request to access certain information that satisfied your purpose that is to be accessed for your first layer of learning recall you then get out of the way and give your neural network the chance to organise itself and create the necessary new neurons.

Confidence.
I was engaged to help a 13 year old get past his problems with algebra (the fact that algebra is a complete mystery to me is irrelevant). My intent was to find the point just before his problem;
that is to the point of his security before things got confused. I moved forward (or in fact backwards)
to fractions as the first point of insecurity, the frightening quagmire with no way out.
I used my then skills, my ingenuity and we got nowhere. I then grabbed the empty bottles
of Mountain Dew he and his father had been drinking and put a fraction of water in one of them.
Mountain Dew was safe, it was part of his understanding and it had nothing to do with fractions.
Light dawned and very rapidly he was able to bring into his confidence the things his teachers
had been trying to teach him. I find it interesting that when you work with critical incident de-briefing you take the person back to their point of confidence before the trauma, or series of little traumas, and ‘lock’ them into their confidence. Another description of this is to ‘anchor’ them in the safe experience of themselves before the distressing incident or the last straw that broke the camel’s back if there has been a series of accumulating stresses.

How is this expressed in Turbo Charged Reading?  
By building up the sequence of Turbo Charged Reading from choosing the book onwards
by using the language with which you are most familiar,
and this is expressed as using ‘your primary and secondary learning modalities’.
In English that means starting with the simple and building into the more detailed of each stage
using the first and second learning styles that suits you best.
This input is then incrementally built upon as your knowledge (learning), security (confidence)
and memory (recall) is extended (enhanced).
Primary visual learners often create Mind Maps as a way of eliciting and recording the information you wish from your written material as an excellent and efficient way to store and recall information. Therefore we start creating mind maps during our first session as a mind map covers the learning styles (your safe language/experience) of being visual – I’ve seen some that are works of art.
For those who learn best by hearing (aural) I tell stories that build up a progressive dialogue
in your mind and these stories are copied onto an MP3. For a paper record primary aural learners would probably prefer bullet points or Business Progress Mapping. (Scroll down for an example)
For the kinaesthetic learners beating a rhythm or walking as you read or listen is helpful;
think of the rhythm of the alphabet, your two times tables etc. I even encourage TCR to create a rap as they turn the pages of their book or dab down the page on their screen.
For those of you who use olfactory and gustatory points of reference
I’m afraid that you’ll have to add these anchors yourself and are encouraged to do so.

As we usually learn and remember and recall using multi senses then mix and match to taste.

So with our Turbo Charged Reading partnership we start with the end in mind
and start by building in incremental layers to ensure your success. M'reen

Introduction to Turbo Charged Reading YouTube
A practical overview of Turbo Charged Reading YouTube
How to choose a book. A Turbo Charged Reading YouTube
Emotions when Turbo Charged Reading YouTube
Advanced Reading Skills Perhaps you’d like to join my FaceBook group ?
Perhaps you’d like to check out my sister blogs:
www.innermindworking.blogspot.com         gives many ways for you to work with the stresses of life
www.ourinnerminds.blogspot.com               which takes advantage of the experience and expertise of others.
www.happyartaccidents.blogspot.com         just for fun.

To quote the Dr Seuss himself, “The more that you read, the more things you will know.
The more that you learn; the more places you'll go.”