Mind mapping

During the week, I attended a luncheon for what's called mind mapping. The main purpose is learning how to use a different method of note taking for better memorization and to stimulate creativitiy. A lot of people follow the traditional methods for taking notes, writing lines by lines for every details that came out of the other person's mouth, using numbering or bullet points to try to differientiate each line, at the end of the days the notes got filed away and the messiness made re-reading difficult. So the most efficient way is to organize thoughts by drawing pictures and writing keywords, using a linkage system to help memorize information..

Aside from that, the lecturer told us a story of a Holland banker. She asked him to do an exercise with his kid on how he was being protrayed out of his kids' eyes, so the banker went back home that night and asked "what do you think about daddy?". Kid said "away", and then he asked "what else?" Kid said "busy.", and he asked again "what else?", kid said "work", and then "money". The banker was heart broken from the responses and went to his wife trying to figure out how come he had such a bad image in front of his kid. She then revealed "every morning when son got up he asked where did daddy go, she said daddy was away, busy working trying to make money." Are you dare to do the same exercise with your kids as well? Small kids wouldn't lie since they will say whatever that comes to their minds, but you gotta be ready for some heartbreaking comments if you are busy parents.  

One of the scariest thing that the lecturer prompted us to do is to prioritize things in our lives. It turned out, for the majority of the people, we have not been spending enough time for what we believed the most important. Work surely should rank pretty low in our priority, but we apparently are spending way too much time on it. And ironically, people are praised for how hard working they are, how devoted they are at work, the fortune they made, the title they have achieved. Not a whole lot of attention is given to non-material achievement i.e. spiritual bonding with friends and family, devotion to the society etc. Again, the publicity doesn't fully reflect the right value system.

I was watching a tv series: "don't take no for an answer, sometimes a girl just wants a guy to push, that makes her feel pretty." right on, yes, aggressive men are particularly attractive.