Mind Map on project management by Marek Kasperski
What Do You Want to Know?
I’m a great believer in lifelong learning. Have you ever been tempted to
study a new subject or acquire a fresh skill?
Whatever your age or circumstances, you have every right to keep on
pushing yourself by exercising your brain – which will help you engage
with life and keep your mental faculties sharp. If you have any desire at all
to nurture a talent or deepen your understanding of a particular topic, I
encourage you now to explore that urge in the form of a Mind Map.
What subject interests you? Use this as the basis of your central image –
and make that image colourful, imaginative and inspiring. To choose the
main branches, start by addressing these questions:
main branches, start by addressing these questions:
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What benefits would studying the subject have for you?
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What tools or study aids do you need?
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Where can you study?
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How does your subject relate to society?
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What outcomes do you hope to achieve from your study?
Qualifications? Skills? Improved CV?
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What considerations or obstacles are there? How can you
address these?
Grow your subbranches to examine these and any related points in more
detail, and enliven the Mind Map with images and symbols throughout.
When you have finished, take a good look at your Mind Map. What steps
will you take in light of what you have discovered?
KEY MIND MAP APPLICATION 4: CREATIVITY
Creativity is like the golden egg of personal development: we all want to be
more creative, yet how to climb the beanstalk, claim the treasure of creativity
and bring it into our lives? Many of us may have been fed damaging myths
surrounding creativity while we were growing up: that creative people are
mavericks, unreliable, foolhardy and a danger to themselves and others; that they
are somehow “special” and set apart from the rest of society. If this is the case, it
is perhaps no surprise that we are sometimes adverse to recognizing creativity in
ourselves.
A much more balanced and productive approach recognizes the many strengths
of creative personalities: they tend to be pioneers, boundary pushers, inventors
and intelligent risk takers. They are more often than not original, flexible,
focused, colourful, driven and visionary. They are childlike without being
childish.
Creative thinking isn’t the prerogative of geniuses; it is simply the ability to
think in original ways and to break away from the norm. Like a muscle, your
creativity will grow stronger the more you exercise it. The more you practise
creativity will grow stronger the more you exercise it. The more you practise
creative thinking:
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