Preview
- Section A Personal
Self-analysis
Problem-solving
The Mind Map diary
- Sec B Family
Family study and story-telling
- Sec C Educational
Thinking
Teaching
Creating the master mind map
- Sec D Business and Professional
Meetings
Presentations
Management
Computer Mind Mapping
- Sec F The Future
Towards a Radiant Thinking and mentally Literate World
Sec A chapter 18 SELF-ANALYSIS
Foreword
This chapter investigates how mind map can be used to give you a greater insight into yourself or help others analyse themselves.
Self-analysis using Mind Maps
Mind Maps can be an enormous help in clarifying your thoughts and feelings.Since a MM uses the full range of cortical skills it gives a comprehensive reflection of the self.Having seen this clear external image of yourself,you are less likely to suffer the unhappy consequences of making decisions that go against your nature and your real needs and desires.
It is helpful to begin with a "complete picture"self-analysis Mind Map,which includes as many as possible of your major characteristics and personality traits.
4Major stages
1Preparation of your environment
Caring for yourself will make your self-analysis more open, complete,profound and useful.Following recommendations given in Chp 10.
2Quick-fire Mind Map burst
Allowing a full and free flow of facts,thoughts and emotions,working at speed will make it easier to express all your ideas,whereas attempting to be too neat and careful is likely to inhibt the spontaneous truthfulness needed for such an exersice.
3Reconstruction and revision
Useful Basic Ordering Ideas include:
- Personal history-past ,present and future
- Strengths and weaknesses
- Likes and dislikes
- Long-term goals
- Family and friends
- Achievements and Hobbies
- Work and home
- Emotions and responsibilities
Colours,shapes,symbols and images are especially helpful in expressing this aspect of your personality in your mindmap.
Directions may be:
- learning
- knowledge
- business
- health
- travel
- leisure
- culture
- ambitions
- problems
This final MM is the external mirror of your internal state.
4,Desicion Making (chp 12 detialed)
Reviewing the past and PROJECTING FUTURE GOALS
Recommend you do self-analysis MM at the beginning and end of any important phase in your life.
Benefits of self-analysis Mind Maps
- Provide a comparatively objective perspective on self
- Full picture of the individual by utilising all the cortical skills
- Macroscopic and microscopic views of the individual
- easy to plan accurate future
- Permanent record to gain a truer perspective
- Help others to do
- Make it easier to express emotions and incorporate them in self-analysis.
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