- The document discusses mind mapping, including its history, benefits, and applications. Mind mapping involves creating diagrams to represent ideas using techniques like colored branches, keywords, and personal style. - Mind maps can be used personally for tasks, analysis, and planning, as well as educationally for note-taking, exams, and projects. They also have business applications like meetings, presentations, and brainstorming. - The benefits of mind mapping include saving time, enhancing creativity, focus and memory. The document encourages practicing mind mapping techniques.

1. Map Your MIInd
Ibrahim Abdel Fattah Mohamed
.. aka bingorabbit
CATReloaded Founder
www.bingorabbit.com
Twitter: @bingorabbit

2. Agenda
● Reviewing Map Your Mind I Session.
● What is Mind Mapping?
● Best & Bad Practices. (Surprise 1)
● Where can I use Mind Maps?

Personal
 Education
 Business
● Practicing the Mind Mapping technique.
● Some ideas. (Surprise 2&3)

3. Quote
“
Whoever, wherever, you are, you are using - to
understand these words -, the most beautiful,
intricate, complex, mysterious, and powerful
object in the known universe: your brain.
”
--Tony Buzan

4. History
The story starts with Tony standing in the
university's library astonished..
Tony asked himself:
● How do I learn how to learn?
● What is the nature of my thinking?
● What are the best techniques of memorizing?
● What are the best techniques of creative
thinking?
.... with a lot of questions..
.. then he started to study again.

5. Some Facts
● As your whole body, your brain has cells;
neurons.
● The Bee Metaphor
● 2 Hemispheres
● Left/Right brained?

7. Our Notes

8. So Why?

9. Brain Likes..
● Patterns (1 – 2 – 3 - ..), shapes and images.
● Emphasized, Colored
● Anything related to 5 senses.
● The very first received information.
● The last received information
● Anything that you are interested in.

10. Mind Maps
Diagrams used to represent your ideas,
thoughts or tasks in a way that your brain
really loves.

11. Technique
●
A white sheet as big as you can, some colored
markers.
●
Start with a central word/image.
●
Start branching from your central object with a
color for each branch. Each branch represents an
association to that object.
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Emphasize your important keywords
●
Develop your personal style.

12. Examples
Good practices..

17. Examples
bad practices..

21. Benefits of Mind Mapping
●
Saving Time, Saving Time, Saving Time and ..
Saving Time.
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Ease of use
●
Creativity
●
Focus
● Mind Enhancement

22. Where?
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Personal
●
Educational
●
Business

23. Personal
●
Self Analysis/Judgment
●
Decision Making
●
Problem Solving
● Daily/Monthly/Yearly Plans
●
To-Do Lists
●
Social Network (Best Friends Phone Numbers?)

24. Educational
●
Mapping Books
●
Lectures and Sections
●
Exams
● Reports
●
Projects
●
And even teaching..

25. Mapping Books
●
Browse, for a central image for you map. (10 mins)
●
Setting time, and amount targets. (5 mins)
●
A quick mind map of existing knowledge. (10 mins)
● Defining and Mind Mapping Goals. (5 mins)
●
Overview, Preview, Inview, Review.

26. Benefits of Mapping Books
●
Easy to review.
●
Whole picture in one place.
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Non-Linear.
● You become excited for more knowledge.
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Enhances your memory.

27. Business
● Meetings
● Presentations
● Management (Events, Time..)
● Brain Storming

28. Presentations
●
Browse, for a central image for you map. (10 mins)
●
Setting time, and amount targets. (5 mins)
●
A quick mind map of existing knowledge. (10 mins)
● Defining and Mind Mapping Goals. (5 mins)
●
Overview, Preview, Inview, Review.

29. Benefits of Mapping Presentations
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Won't loose your eye contact.
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Freedom of movement.
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Adaptation.
● Expandability

30. Let's try it..

31. Thanks!
Email: br@bingorabbit.com
URL: www.bingorabbit.com
Twitter: @bingorabbit