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A Goal Setting Tool From High School Revisited

I still vividly remember finding a Tony Buzan mind mapping book in a second hand bookshop in the early 1980s. I was sufficiently curious of the book's premises to test mind maps while I was a physics teacher in the UK. This article reviews the goal setting lessons I learned while mind mapping in the classroom.

1 - Use What Works:

Students doing their best to follow a demanding examination curriculum were very familiar with taking pages and pages of notes. After all, teachers like me exhorted the value of note taking as a learning tool in its own right. So you can imagine that my senior classes were at first mildly amused and then appalled by their teachers volte face! For the beginners we were back then, mind mapping seemed to work primarily when combined with traditional note taking. Attempts to rock the boat were resisted!

Goal Setting Lesson: Experiment with mind mapping for specific topics and use note taking as an addendum for any details you believe have been missed.

2- Spoon Feeding The Addiction:

While taking pages and pages of notes certainly requires time and attention, it can also lead to the development of lazy habits such as mindlessly copying verbatim chunks of information from a textbook or blackboard. Sadly, my classes loved to be spoon fed notes, either as a homework exercise, or directly from my writing on the board or overhead projector.

Goal Setting Lesson: Take your favorite personal development book and read one goal setting chapter. Then close the book and summarize the title of that chapter as one word in the middle of a piece of paper. Then let your imagination go to work and recall at least five keyword concepts from the chapter and add them as single word branches to your map.

3 - Patience:

New mind mappers often report it difficult to remember keywords from the section they recently finished reading. Relax! Making mistakes while practicing any new skill is part of the learning experience.

Goal Setting Lesson: Begin your mind mapping journey with books you really enjoy. With regular practice, more and more ideas will bubble up from your memory banks as you concentrate on the main keyword. Remember to add them as single keywords to the map using a pencil, not a pen! For my science classes this was never easy because many teachers and role models had drilled into them throughout their school years the 'fact' that pages and pages of notes were absolutely a requirement to pass exams.

4 - One Word:

Possibly the most difficult mapping task is to fine tune the specific meaning into just one optimal word. Naturally, there are problems when taking the keyword approach to science or maths - think formulae and equations. In these cases it is important to remember(see section a) to use what works.

Goal Setting Lesson: Select a 'best-effort' summary keyword and begin with that, leaving the various branches under that and the supporting notes to look after any additional details that come to mind.

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Mark McClure - A certified coach on a goal setting mission.



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