When it comes to studying it may not be everyone's cup of tea, and I'm talking about myself. Sometimes we encounter an overload of information in that we end up with too many stuff to remember and we are just not certain if we can hold that much or not. There is an effective way of helping yourself remember things better, it may not be something new but it sure is useful; it's mind mapping. A man named Tony Buzan came up with it in 1970.
It is the technique of summarizing large chunks of information into a tree-like diagram. Then notes can be written onto its branches or leaves, whichever you fancy. And it is a known fact that by adding colours and making the diagram more interesting, our brain tends to capture the image of the information so much better than a plain black and white tree. This is because, in order to improve memory we ought to use as much of our brain as possible, hence by drawing, colouring and writing information, we are actually utilizing both sides of our brain.
Other than that, our work is more organized and easier to look-up some we need to do a quick review.
I would also like to share about a blog entry I came across last week written by a teacher friend of mine. This friend of mine was distressed and disappointed after a statement made by one of her students in class.
Let me first give a brief background of her students, her students consist of international students that are from Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Iran, Sudan, Korea, Japan and China.
Her class generally consists of well-behaved students who are in their teens to late forties. However, there is also a particular group of students from Iran who are always rebelling against the rules that were set on the first day of class. Having being concerned over her students’ learning and growth in acquiring English as their foreign language, she constantly reminds and calls out students who are disruptive, speaks in their own native language in class and often prefers to have small talks with their fellow peers.
What shocked her the most was when one particular student stood and claimed that my friend hated all the Iranian students with the reason that she only picked on them and not students from other countries.
I personally felt that the particular student had given a sweeping generalization of her teacher. It it fairly obvious, that an unfair and irrelevant conclusion towards the teacher was made based on the thought that only Iranians were often told to behave in a pleasing manner in class thus concluding that the teacher dislikes people from Iran without taking into the account that the students from other countries were very much well-behaved hence the logic that they do not have to be reminded at all.
This is a personal experience that I have faced in my work place regarding the suitable payment that we should wage our talents for an animation that we have been working on.
As the sound engineer I personally felt that a number of the talents deserved to be given a higher payment as they have performed really well in their delegated tasks.
Considering that, I have proposed to a colleague of mine who is my producer that we should increase the payments for the said talents as we were given an ample of fund to run the production. However, the producer blatantly denied my proposal without even consulting my boss she asked me a question which I felt was a fallacious argument using the fallacies of prejudicial language armed with a loaded question that made me agreed to her decision.
“Would you want the boss to feel that you are wasting the company’s money by maximizing the talents’ payment?”
After going through the types of fallacious debates that we have. I personally felt that during that particular moment I was being conned into assuming that what she said was indeed true.
Instead of agreeing and believing that what she said was true, I should have instead inquired if minimizing the talents’ payment has been a normal practice which has been approved and well-liked by the boss and organization.
