week 5 - Associated mind map

This week's lecture by Mr. Radzi was really fun and interesting. The lecture is about mind mapping. During class, our lecturer even use mortal and pestle to relate with the 2 types of mind map.

Mind Map

A mind map is a graphical way to represent ideas and concepts. It is a visual thinking tool that helps structuring information, helping you to better analyze, comprehend, synthesize, recall and generate new ideas.

Information taken from: http://litemind.com/what-is-mind-mapping/

There are 2 types of mind map, which are logical mind map and associated mind map.

Logical mind map

I think most of us are more familiar with logical mind map. We usually just list down the information that we know or find in a mind map. It is because the logical mind map comprises of stereotypes words or information. The keywords or images in a logical mind map are related to the center subject. Hence, every keywords and images have connection with each other.

Associated mind map

Associated mind map is useful for getting creative ideas. Diverging thinking can be applied in doing an associated mind map. We can put any random ideas without limitation because all the keywords in the mind map are not necessary related to each other directly. As long as the keywords are connected to the center subject, we can expand our ideas without hesitation as associated mind map does not really required logical thinking.

Mind map is a a very useful tool when doing idea generation and brainstorming. It helps us in taking notes, researching, generating new ideas, problem solving, studying and memorization and planning. So, when we have problem in thinking concepts or solutions, drawing an associated mind map is one of the good methods to get variety of possible ideas.