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Continuing with learning from our
Mount Pulag Trek, I look back and saw incomparable work of natural
art. Most trees such as the mango trees all around us are so full of
leaves and fruits, you could only see the leaves and the trunk. The
trees at Mount Pulag are mostly skeletal, but nonetheless beautiful.
They are not all leaves and fruits and flowers. You could easily see
the outline of the whole tree and identify individual moss-covered
branch and twig against the backdrop of clear blue sky. Each tree is
a natural wonder of the world.
This brings me
to think about mind maps. Think about your mind and how it works.
Picture in your mind a robust bare tree and imagine the natural
architecture of the millions of brain cells connected to one another
as part of the “neuronal embraces” throughout your brain.
When you think
of brain mapping, you think of Tony Buzan, one of the world’s
experts on the brain, thinking and learning skills and the one who
invented mind mapping.
In their The
Mind Map Book, Tony and Barry Buzan write: “What happens in your
brain when you taste a ripe pear, smell flowers, listen to music,
watch a stream, touch a loved one, or simply reminisce?
“Each bit of
information entering your brain—every sensation, memory or thought
[incorporating every word, number, code, food, fragrance, line,
color, image, beat, note and texture] can be represented as a
central sphere from which radiate tens, hundreds, thousands,
millions of hooks.
“Each hook
represents an association, and each association has its own infinite
array of links and connections. The number of associations you have
already ‘used’ may be thought of as your memory, your database,
or your library. Within your mind is a data-processing system that
dwarfs the combined analytical capacities and storage facilities of
the world’s most advanced computers.
“As a result
of using this many-hooked, multiordinate, information-processing and
storage system, your brain already contains maps of information that
would have the world’s great cartographers gasping in disbelief,
could they see them.
“A quick
calculation will reveal that your already existing database of items
of information, and the associations radiating from them, consists
of multiple quadrillions of data associations.
“Some people
use this vast database as an excuse to stop learning, explaining
that their brains are nearly ‘full up,’ and that for this reason
they are not going to learn anything new because they need to save
the precious, remaining space for the ‘really important stuff.’
But there is no cause for concern because that even if your brain
were fed 10 items of data [each item being a simple word or image]
every second for 100 years, it would still have used less than
one-tenth of its storage capacity.
“This
astounding storage capacity is made possible by the almost
unbelievable sophistication of the intricate pathways that
constitute our metabolic processes. Your brain has the ability to
make patterns using the data it already possesses.
“From this
gigantic information processing ability and learning capacity
derives the concept of radiant thinking of which mind map is a
manifestation.”
Wow! And
double wow because we will be privileged to learn more about these
concepts from the master himself when Tony Buzan comes here to lead
and facilitate a two-day workshop on March 26 and 27 at the Mandarin
Oriental Hotel, aptly titled “Unleash the genius of creativity and
innovation for a competitive edge.” For details, call Ms. Serely
Alcaraz at 887-7428 or e-mail itdmanila@-itd.com.my.
ASTD 2007.
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There will be some two hundred concurrent sessions on career
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