Why Question Based Mind Mapping?
One of the lessons that I’ve learned during my Mind Map journey is that the better questions that you ask the more effective your Mind Mapping will be.
This can be applied in many different ways? A small sample of questions could include:
- How will I organize my class notes?
- How do I want to structure my essay?
- In tests or exams, what area are my strengths, what are my weaknesses?
- What colors or shapes do I want to use to strengthen my recall of information?
- In group work, how will we divide the work and how do we create a project plan?
- How can I use Mind Maps for a research project and as the best way to organize my information?
Outside of school, I experienced the power of asking better questions through:
- Technology Sales career
- Co-authoring a hockey book
- In preparation for being interviewed by the media
- In preparation for interviewing over 100 people including Wayne Gretzky
- Organizing a Terry Fox Run for Cancer Research
- Designing websites
- Public speaking
- Writing articles
- Goal setting
- Writing business plans
One thing to keep in mind is that WE don’t always have to know the right questions. That’s why it’s important to be resourceful and find other sources to find those questions. Those resources can be online, as well as people we know like our family and friends and people that we don’t know who may be experts in their field.
“The wise man doesn’t give the right answers, he poses the right questions. “
Claude Levi-Strauss
We will look and discuss many different applications of Mind Maps and think about what types of questions we want to ask. Also, there will be unique Mind Map Series interviewing individuals from many different fields.
