the information from the picture goes straight into the creative side of the brain and then you can describe it with the other side of the brain – the analytical side of the brain. On the other hand though, if you had a thousand words and you had ten seconds to look at those thousand words and then had to reproduce it, how much would you know? You'd be flat out to produce one hundred words out of the thousand words wouldn't you? But if you looked at a picture – information flows easily.
You can probably see now that the idea of Mind Charting is to build up a picture and as we build up a picture that is how we can revise.
One way of using Mind Charting is for revision of a topic. You can build up a Mind Chart for problem solving or for writing a paper or essay, or for any other summary that you want to make. Once you've done it and built up this Mind Chart, you can put it up on the wall and look at it – very quickly just like a picture – and you will remember, with the creative side of your brain. The next day make really sure you look at it again, if your walls at home or in the office are getting full, then take the Mind Chart down, and put it in a scrap book, or your note book. Look at it a week later, then a month later, and each time revise only what you don't know. Experimentation has shown that a year later there is a 90% success rate in remembering the information, through the use of Mind Charts. Pretty powerful!
Take a moment now to look at the Mind Charts later in the book: before the second exercise in Chapter 7, at the beginning of Chapter 9, and in the “Weight Release - Imagery” section in Chapter 11. These are three different kinds of Mind Charts – choose one of these styles or make your own.
Exercise
Take some coloured pencils, and spend about five minutes making a Mind Chart of the information you have read so far.
A Mind Chart of this book (so far) has been prepared by Monika Kobus (isn't she good at it?). What you can do is colour it in – perhaps compare it to your own, remembering that anything you prepare yourself is much more powerful. Turn to the next two pages to see Monika's Mind Chart.
A Good Tip: Throughout the book preview each chapter by looking at the Mind Chart at the beginning of the chapter. Read each chapter then revise it by looking at the Mind Chart at the end of the chapter. If you ever want to quickly summarise the book, just look at these Mind Charts.
USE COLOUR !
Research into using colour in the last ten years has shown:
•Memory is improved by up to 82%
•A 70% time saving is made in reading
•Reading motivation increases by up to 80%
•Understanding is 73% easier
USE COLOUR FOR –
Notes, lectures, study,
mind charting and
everywhere you can.
REVIEW OF CHAPTERS 1 – 4
PREVIEW OF CHAPTER 5
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