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Mind map your projects and your books
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I recently decided to do a mind map of a project I m working on after I listened to an interview of Michael Gelb author of “How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci”.
I bought a big block of drawing paper and made my mind map, this is an incredible useful tool, I have a global view of my project now and I can access it at any time to add details and improvement. I will start mind mapping some of the book I bought , I m sure it will help a lot. This guy at the Mindmapswitch wrote an interesting post on mind mapping books. I might use that as a starting point and I will also probably get a copy of Tony Buzan book on Mind map.
Hypnopaedia : Learning something while sleeping
Posted by: | CommentsHypnopaedia or sleep learning is something I first heard in the book “Superlearning” from what I could recall the comments about sleep learning where unfavourable.
Lately, one guy I know used sleep learning to his own benefit, it awakened my interest in hypnopaedia.
I read about some interesting experiments:
Leshan (1942) tested the theory of sleep-learning on a group of nail-biting boys attending summer camp. The experimental group consisted of 20 nail-biting subjects, aged 8 to 12 years. There were two control groups: the first consisted of 8 nail-biters, aged 8 to 10 years, the second consisted of 12 nail biters, aged 11 to 14 years
The recorded message, “My finger-nails taste terribly bitter,” was repeated 50 times, 6 times a night.The results supported Leshan’s theory that recorded messages played during sleep incite mental activity. 40% of the boys quit biting their nails. Read More→
5 Tips to Improve Your IQ
Posted by: | CommentsToday, we have a guest post from Holly McCarthy, she shares tips on improving IQ.
Just as the human body requires exercise to remain fit, similarly human brain also needs exercise to keep itself agile. If you use it in the right ways, you will become a more skilled thinker and increase your ability to focus. But if we abuse it with harmful living habits, our ability to think and learn will certainly deteriorate. Here are 5 simple ways by which anyone can get more productivity out of this grey matter of our body.
Brain Nutrition
Of all the things that you can do to improve IQ, keeping good overall health is the most important, especially a physically healthier brain improves all other IQ related aspects such as, memory, logic, understanding, and problem solving abilities. Just as nutrition is indispensable for a healthy body, similarly a sharp brain demands good mental nutrition. Take rich diet with a balanced intake of proteins, fats, carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals. There are also many brain nutrition supplements like Omega 3 oil capsules that you could take to support mental functioning. But be careful that such external supplements should be taken only after proper medical consultation.
Sensory Development
Our mind perceives and interprets everything happening around us. Our thoughts get crystallized in form of images, sounds, feelings and words using our senses. Thus by working on our sensory development we increase our perception. Take up activities that would present challenging scenarios to the mind such as attempting various IQ tests and solving word or number puzzles as these sharpen our mental faculty. Also try to do varied reading as that also provides different sensory stimulus to our brain.
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Copyright a block to creativity ?
Posted by: | CommentsAs you know the content of this blog is under the Creative Common License (Attribution 3.0 ) (You are free to share, distribute and remix my content with author attribution).
I do not understand the mentality of people living on intellectual properties most of them are “remixer” yet they claim to be original creator when they really aren’t.
Consider the Aladdin character it wasn’t created by Disney , they also used the face of actor Tom Cruise for their Aladdin character so what is this ? It is a remix, pure and simple. I remember I was contacted a few months ago by a very upset woman because I quoted one of her article about EFT 
. She chanted the copyright law mantra. What this woman do not understand is that she is also a remixer. She took a speech by Gandhi remixed it with EFT to create a self-help EFT script this is a brilliant idea but it relies on other people ideas. That’s the problem with the mentality of people living on intellectual properties, they allow themselves to be remixer but they are upset when their work is in turn added to a new remix. Read More→
What is a mind map ? How to learn languages with mind map
Posted by: | CommentsI remember when I was in school to learn Spanish I used to make mind map instead of normal note taking, the guy sitting next to me didn’t get it. Note taking in the form of a list of vocabulary is very inefficient.
Because, it doesn’t reflect how the brain work, the brain works through association. If you watch the video below, it explains how it makes more sense to use a mind map. Mind map worked great for me to learn words related to objects such all the elements in a kitchen. I just had to make a mind map called “kitchen” (cocina) and from there create all the branches with associations. Just the way the brain work.
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