Creative Mind Maps

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What is Mind Map?

A Mind Map is a powerful graphic technique which provides a universal key to unlock the potential of the brain. It harnesses the full range of cortical skills - word, image, number, logic, rhythm, colour and spatial awareness - in a single, uniquely powerful manner. In so doing, it gives you the freedom to roam the infinite expanses of your brain. The Mind Map can be applied to every aspect of life where improved learning and clearer thinking will enhance human performance.

What do You Need to Make a Mind Map?

Because Mind Maps are so easy to do and so natural, the ingredients for your "Mind Map Recipe" are very few:

• Blank unlined paper
• Coloured pens and pencils
• Your Brain
• Your imagination!

When you use Mind Maps on a daily basis, you will find that your life becomes more productive, fulfilled, and successful on every level. There are no limits to the number of thoughts, ideas and connections that your brain can make, which means that there are no limits to the different ways you can use Mind Maps to help you.

7 Steps to Making a Mind Map

1. Start in the CENTRE of a blank page turned sideways. Why? Because starting in the centre gives your Brain freedom to spread out in all directions and to express itself more freely and naturally.
2. Use an IMAGE or PICTURE for your central idea. Why? Because an image is worth a thousand words and helps you use your Imagination. A central image is more interesting, keeps you focussed, helps you concentrate, and gives your Brain more of a buzz!
3. Use COLOURS throughout. Why? Because colours are as exciting to your Brain as are images. Colour adds extra vibrancy and life to your Mind Map, adds tremendous energy to your Creative Thinking, and is fun!
4. CONNECT your MAIN BRANCHES to the central image and connect your second- and third-level branches to the first and second levels, etc. Why? Because your Brain works by association. It likes to link two (or three, or four) things together. If you connect the branches, you will understand and remember a lot more easily.
5. Make your branches CURVED rather than straight-lined. Why? Because having nothing but straight lines is boring to your Brain.
6. Use ONE KEY WORD PER LINE. Why Because single key words give your Mind Map more power and flexibility.
7. Use IMAGES throughout. Why Because each image, like the central image, is also worth a thousand words. So if you have only 10 images in your Mind Map, it's already the equal of 10,000 words of notes!

Originated in the late 1960s by Tony Buzan Mind Maps are now used by millions of people around the world - from the very young to the very old - whenever they wish to use their minds more effectively. Find out all about Mind Mapping by reading the Ultimate Book of Mind Maps.


Here's you tube video of Tony explaining what is mind map.. Check out if you really interested!

Adopted from:

http://www.buzanworld.com/Mind_Maps.htm

Final thoughts

Mind Map is fascinating way to let our brain to think and imagine things. We are reducing the number of words that needed to be absorbed by replacing it with pictures. Simply because a picture worth thousand words. I use mind map for exams, it really helps me alot especially when I am stuck during the exam. The images that I have drawn in the mind map will come into the picture during examination and I can happily answer the questions. Besides images, colours also help to memorize things and make difference.

Bill Gates

Bill Gates

· Bill Gates Biography (William Henry Gates III): Microsoft Founder
Famous for: Being the richest man in the world, a cofounder of the software company Microsoft, and for being one of the world's most generous philanthropists.
Gates details: Born - USA October 28, 1955 Lives - United States of America
More Gates: Buffett Gives to Gates Foundation - Person of the Year 2005 - Melinda Gates - Richest Man in the World

· Born on Oct. 28, 1955, Gates grew up in Seattle with his two sisters.

· Their father, William H. Gates II, is a Seattle attorney.

· Their late mother, Mary Gates, was a schoolteacher, University of Washington regent, and chairwoman of United Way International.

· Gates was married on Jan. 1, 1994, to Melinda French Gates.

· They have three children.

· Gates is an avid reader, and enjoys playing golf and bridge.

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The logo of Windows shows that Bill Gates is the founder of Microsoft.

The two hands showing reaching each other and the heart represents that he gives a helping hand in order to support philanthropic initiatives in the areas of global health and learning, with the hope that in the 21st century, advances in these critical areas will be available for all people. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has committed more than $3.6 billion to organizations working in global health; more than $2 billion to improve learning opportunities, including the Gates Library Initiative to bring computers, Internet Access and training to public libraries in low-income communities in the United States and Canada; more than $477 million to community projects in the Pacific Northwest; and more than $488 million to special projects and annual giving campaigns.

The picture of a book shows that he is avid reader.

Reference:

http://www.crunchbase.com/person/bill-gates

http://www.woopidoo.com/biography/bill-gates.htm

My Avatar..

In class activities makes the class more cheerful and happening.
This my avatar drawn by my friend, Yugendran results from my characteristics and my likes..

Pizza: Shows that's my favourite food..
Headphone and music notes: I love music and I cant live without them..
Smiley face: It shows that I love to be happy and make others happy.
The hand and leg gestures: I love to dance too..

Thats all about my avatar. It was a fun activity, not only we learn to convert characteristics to image form but also get to know each other by asking a lot of questions.

Human and inventions

As time by passes by Humans been creating so many things for their needs. From a BULB to a latest HAND PHONE. As the trend changes, human also start to invert more and more things that are convenient and makes their life simpler. Invention of things no matter it is a big as an aeroplane or as small as a cip in a handphone, ideas and creativity plays a role in each and every inventions.

To invent is to see anew. “To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old questions from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance.”
“Imagination is more important than knowledge.” -Albert Einstein

Here are some links for some cool latest inventions! Check it out! You will never know what kind of inventions you might find there.


http://www.inventionreaction.com/new-inventions/
http://www.latest-inventions.com/
http://www.coolest-gadgets.com/category/cgotw/

Invention

What is Invention?

1. The act of finding out or inventing; contrivance or construction of that which has not before existed; as, the invention of logarithms; the invention of the art of printing.

As the search of it [truth] is the duty, so the invention will be the happiness of man.-Tatham.

2. That which is invented; an original contrivance or construction; a device; as, this fable was the invention of Esop; that falsehood was her own invention; she patented five inventions.
[1913 Webster +PJC]

We entered by the drawbridge, which has an invention to let one fall if not premonished.-Evelyn.

3. Thought; idea. Shak.

4. A fabrication to deceive; a fiction; a forgery; a falsehood.

Filling their hearers
With strange invention.-Shak.

5. The faculty of inventing; imaginative faculty; skill or ingenuity in contriving anything new; as, a man of invention.

They lay no less than a want of invention to his charge; a capital crime, . . . for a poet is a maker.-Dryden.

6. (Fine Arts, Rhet., etc.) The exercise of the imagination in selecting and treating a theme, or more commonly in contriving the arrangement of a piece, or the method of presenting its parts.

Taken from

http://www.answers.com/topic/invention-1

Innovation in Thumb drives

Nowdays, thumb drives or pendrives its a common use among students, office workers and also others. The use of floppy disk or cd has been reduced this product. In fact, i bet our siblings who are less 10 years old wouldnt even know what is a floopy disk. Am I right?

Seen it has become a nessecity to a computer user, it has innovated and comes in many shapes and size and attractive to look at. Here are some of the examples...

A thumb drive can be a gift to someone (girl)..

Doggie thumb drive created in Japan..

Another creation of Japanese. Sushi thumb drive..

Thumb drive in Ducks shape..

Difference in shapes and size can make it more attractive and user friendly..

Innovation

Innovation simply means a new way of doing something. It may refer to incremental, radical, and revolutionary changes in thinking, products, processes, or organizations.
A distinction is typically made between invention, an idea made manifest, and innovation, ideas applied successfully. In many fields, something new must be substantially different to be innovative, not an insignificant change, e.g., in the arts, economics, business and government policy.
In economics the change must increase value, customer value, or producer value. The goal of innovation is positive change, to make someone or something better. Innovation leading to increased productivity is the fundamental source of increasing wealth in an economy.


Innovation as a behavior

Some in depth work on innovation in organisations, teams and individuals has been carried out by J. L. Byrd[1], PhD who is co-author of "The Innovation Equation." Dr Jacqueline Byrd is the brain behind the Creatrix Inventory which can be used to look at innovation and what is behind it. The Innovation Equation she developed is:

Innovation = Creativity * Risk Taking

Using this inventory it is possible to plot on axis where individuals fit on their Risk Taking and Creativity.

Quotes on Innovation

"Pure innovation is more gross than error." - George Chapman

"The INNOVATION point is the pivotal moment when talented and motivated people seek the opportunity to act on their ideas and dreams." -W. Arthur Porter

"Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities." - Thomas Jefferson

"Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations." - Steve Jobs

"An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents. What does happen is that its opponents gradually die out, and that the growing generation is familiarized with the ideas from the beginning." - Max Planck

Adopted from:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innovation
http://www.answers.com/innovation

Quotes on Novelty

"The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle." - Hannah Arendt

"The New is not a fashion, it is a value." - Roland Barthes

"An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it." - Robert Bresson

"I don't set trends. I just find out what they are and exploit them." - Dick Clark

"We do not quite say that the new is more valuable because it fits in; but its fitting in is a test of its value -- a test, it is true, which can only be slowly and cautiously applied, for we are none of us infallible judges of conformity." - T. S. Eliot

"Of all the passions of mankind, the love of novelty most rules the mind. In search of this, from realm to realm we roam. Our fleets come loaded with every folly home." - Shelby Foote

Novelty

Novelty sounds classical but it simply means the quality of being new or novel. It also means something new and unusual, an innovation.

Being new does not consider its originality and novelty in creativity is always based on what has been created before. Novelty can be recognized if its contrast with what is considered old or the same thing can be perceived as either new or old. The old can become the new again if it is preceded by something different.

Some examples of novelty