Messages I am receiving about how my talk has helped them progress in some way, heartwarming. A fulfillment of my purpose.

Mind maps made me an all A student in school. I would do a mind map while looking through notes or a textbook. Then I would look over it and really try UNDERSTAND the information. Then I would write atleast a page essay of what i remembered.Then put both pages into a folder and glance over all the topics at the beginning of every study session. then when it got closer to exams I would do flashcards on each topic and skim through them. I had very little mental strain too because of it. Organisation is so important.

Couple this with the Feynman Technique, will of iron, and immense passion and nothing can stop you.

I done this the day of my biology test and I got an A. I finally know how to study. THANK YOU. THANK YOU

Mindmaps also help me to learn vocabulary faster and more efficiently. Starting with a topic (for example: Business, Transportation), I draw branches which are words relating to the topic. I organise words' positions so I can see the connection between them. I also use color codes to categorise them (verb-noun-adjective, masculine-neutral-feminine words)

Why we don't have this "mind mapping" lesson at school? I think all school in the world should teach this brilliant way of thinking when we at teenage. Thank you for sharing 🙏

I've been using mind-mapping for 30 years when designing information systems and more recently machine learning algorithms.... it is without question a phenomenal tool/technique !

I just learned it at 70. Great stuff.

The best TED conclusion ever : Share with someone. Teach some children. Thank you, Hazel. Thank you.

I've have watched so many TED Talks and this one is one of a few that I can actually apply to my daily life.

Amazing how she did her Ph.D. while raising 3 children ! She knows what she is talking about !

Thanks a lot! I used this a day before my 20 mark test , got 19.5 and now I finally know how to study!

I used mind maps as a way to note, build topic and subject maps for exams. Now i have a MBA... In 20 years in business mind maps keep everyone on task.

That probably deserved a standing ovation... but I noticed almost everyone in the audience was old, so they were probably just angry no one taught them this sooner the same way Hazel was.

I work full time and study law part time whilst I gym 2 times a day, I use mindmaps and I am a straight A student. Its been a life saver. In school and last degree I performed average but now I have elevated myself to Merit standard level all thanks to mindmaps, I really get into the core of any material and disect it in a way that my brain understands best thank you so much

This is absolutely life-changing. As someone who spends a ridiculous amount of time writing down notes in lengthy paragraphs, I realize how much time I have wasted. Even after studying I would still jot down what I've learned into long sentences, even though it was completely unnecessary. I tried this method today after studying to gauge how much I learned and I have to say, it is a much better way to learn indeed, and a faster way as well. It's safe to say that I'll be using this method for the rest of my college years, and probably for the rest of my life. Thank you so much for sharing this!

There is so much more to mind mapping than is spoken about in this talk. For example, what about symbols, pictures, and colors? I would HIGHLY recommend checking out Tony Buzan’s, The Mind Map Book. I can promise it will be life-changing.

Interesting talk. I kept wishing that we could have looked at her mind map while she was speaking, instead of the camera panning to the darkened room where the audience sat. I guess there has to be some extra benefit to being there in person.

Schools just taught us about mind maps but never taught us the importance, their usefulness Humans remember Images, key ideas, things we already knew not paragraphs or even sentences- great line said by her

Dear Ms. Wagner, You certainly deserved a standing ovation for sharing insights to mindmapping. Thank you for a fresh perspective and ability to simplify, in essence, an effectual sophisticated tool. I loved every minute of your talk and appreciated your experience availability to TEDNaperville and indeed, the UKposts audience. Mindmapping was introduced to me in 2000 during training as a manager for Estee Lauder Europe. I fell in love immediately, a visual cortex (courting 😊). Thank you Ms. Wagner for refreshing and resetting my approach to completing my published work. I appreciate you.

I can't thank-you enough for teaching and sharing this!! I learnt this a year ago and as a pharmacist, it greatly helps me learn and REMEMBER about disease states and the appropriate drugs to treat the disease. I would learn about a topic and forget. Now I mind map, and if I forget, I review by looking at the mind map without having to read all over again. This has given me the method to remember what I learn. Love it!!

Very interesting Ted Talk. It held my attention and convinced me to integrate mind mapping into my daily life. I do have a very good memory but there is always room for improvement. Ms Wagner made it sound easy, accessible, and available to anyone.

Humans cognition develops when we find patterns and connection. Such an amazing talk!!

I used this in college. I didn't think of it as a mind map but its an awesome way to remember and write papers. I called it the bubble method. Same concept. Thank you Hazel! This is awesome and it works.

I have been doing this out of sheer boredom in some computer classes. I agree this is a helpful tool and much easier to revisit for triggers.

Thank you. I am studying a Psychology honours degree. I used this for my essay, great!!! All the important concepts I need to include, I remembered XXX

Great talk. I’ve been MMing for years, through school and business, and appreciated it every time. It works. Thank you for your talk.

This is a new concept for me. Ms Wagner held my attention and explained the concept in an accessible manner. I will try it when my class resumes in January.

Another great Ted talk! I used mind maps in my laters years of study, wish I had found about it earlier! Great technique for note taking at University

My chemistry teacher taught us about mind maps and how to use them to remember the synthetic routes/reaction pathways. Don't know why I haven't incorporated it into my other subjects as it's been really helpful for me in remembering all the ways organic substances can react

Excellent, loved this and you really helped me a lot. I’ve already been playing around with mind mapping and I love it. What a great speaker/teacher regarding mind mapping.

Mind maps are great for images, key ideas and connections. Thank you for sharing this.

When i was in high school i used to use a lot mind maps, but since i started my major, as an engineer career, i didn't really see how to use mind maps because i just had basic programming and math classes, wich i didn't feel the need of even taking notes. but now i'm having classes where i need to memorize things again and that freaked me out at first because my memory wasn't retaining anything with the notes i used. this ted talk gave me a light again. thanks

So grateful to learn about this halfway through my college life.

I did learn what mind mapping was, however I never thought of how helpful and significant it was. Now I understand.

as someone who sometimes can forget easily information and also kinda feels annoyed when speakers are involving too much information in a confusing way i am shock and at the same time i leave with a great impression of her as speaker the way she synthetize all the information in such a organized way adding facts , quotes without making it too confusing to understand was awesome !! she really kept me in track and mind wide open throughout the ted talk .. will definetely expect listen more from her !!!

Excellent talk. I'm new to mind mapping and I already see the power of organizing information in this way. It's inspiring to hear that someone this educated found this tool helpful.

Just discovered this tool for enhancing memory today! Definitely going to put it into practice in my academic life. Thanks.

Thank you.They should be teaching this in schools, children and we all need this knowledge.I am 63 and only now realised I never heard about mind mapping .But surely I am still in time I shall teach my five grandchildren about this importance .Gratitude in sharing and teachings us all.Thank you TED.

I hope a lot of teachers watch and apply this; in my expirience only a couple of them used it (some are too lazy to stand beside the chalkboard)

I really glad to watch this video. 5 years back when I was in school, I used to do mind maps for subjects or even some interesting topics separately. At that time, I don't know about the impact of this mind map in my studies. After entering into college, actually I forgot about this mind maps and took notes in n number of pages. Then, IDK what is the reason but I started to feel like less confident person, i struggled much to remember things and a lot more. I started to think about these issues but I didn't get the root cause of issues. Now, this video gave me the answer for all my problems. Now, I really wanted to do whatever things like mind map that I followed while in school. I believe this note will be useful for others as well.

Wow she teaches it better than the inventor of it. I'm in nursing school and haven't been happy with my note taking. I always felt there was something missing. Now I found it! I can already tell this is what I've been looking for. She is so right.about traditional note taking merely being transcribing.

Thank you Hazel for your clear, informative and educational speech. I will practice your method of mind map for my next speech. I’ve learned a lot from mind map tips.

I have an ADHD diagnosis and struggle daily with significant executive function barriers. Just starting to learn how to utilise external tools like this to help me manage my daily life.

I like the way she speaks, she makes the informations really clear!

Thank you Hazel for this greate Talk on Mind Mapping. I am using Mind Maps for more then 20 Years and still are surprised how easy this tool is. I also agree with you to do Mind Maps on paper - Quick - Every where available - Personal - made for my brain...

Thx, Hazel! i have the mmbook for dummies and i started using it and then, moving to new place, forgot my not-yet-habit. your talk renewed my enthusiasm. so much more effective than linear notes! my brain never would lv enuf space for the ideas teacher was presenting--no room to grow the thot! good job, great service for our kids and all of us--elders too!

There'sno way to not get agry with that when you really make a point of thinking creative and actually remeber it after all. Thank you so much for this TED.

Kept my attention from beginning to end. Natural orator. Wonderful brain, thanks for sharing.

I'm glad I've seen this video it would definitely help me improve my speaking on a certain topics for my exam!

Your approach to new ideas is similar to something I have used for long time. Thank you for explaining it so well.

I can write short hand as fast as people can talk. I learned this in the military having to synthesize the information quickly. But sometimes it would be hard to translate. But this Professor has it exactly right. While it’s good to be able to write things down as it comes reinforces the lecture but this mind mapping method is really really good. It helps you really focus organize and structure a solid framework on you subject making it easier to master the subject and presentation. It’s almost like magic. Excellent Lecture! Nicely Done ✅

Thank you for this video!! I am a Hong Kong student studying for DSE, I know mind maps existed but never realized the importance until now, and yes I feel a little angry I wasn't using mind maps to take notes during class in the past 6 years of secondary school.

It really helped me for subjects like history that has many branches to memorize, I was surprised for getting few mistakes. I really think, I am a visual learner

I learnt mind mapping recently and I am going crazy on it. Following through the words of presentor on teching it others, I have recently started blogging about my learning and I attach a mindmap with everyone of them. Lets make this world a beautiful place

Really great to see such a great scholar delivering politely and allowing our mind to get dynamically unlocked thanku I dnt know how much i can do in mind mapping but i will try my level best to do that

I've experimented with mind maps for problem solving - here's a short summary. I use a blank A4 sheet in landscape format, and divide it in 3x3 equal cells (just by hand, no ruler needed). I have prepared a couple of sticky notes so I can see them from my desk. On a central sticky note, I have some key processes, like orientation, asking questions, generating ideas, looking back, and perhaps two others. For each of these key processes, I have another sticky note with stimuli that help me with the process, like a list of general questions I find useful ("What's puzzling? What happens if I make changes to one part?" etc.). With this toolbox in front of me, I start in the first cell, usually with a mind map on orientation about my topic. Each cell is fairly small, and I have it filled soon - after that I can decide what aspect to investigate in more depth in the next cell, or I can look back from a new cell on the previous one. For each cell, I can decide what layout works best - in most cases, I use a mind map, but sometimes it's a diagram or just ordinary text lines. Personally, I find this 3x3 approach useful for three reasons. First, in my experience, a single mind map on a large sheet suggests a layout with several main branches of equal weight - but in problem solving, I often want to follow a path of ideas, and this path would make a classical mind map highly asymmetrical. Second, the transition from one cell to to the next triggers me to refocus and to understand what I'm doing right now, so these things happen more often in the 3x3 setting than in the classical map. Third, I find it much easier to look back on an aspect in one map from a new cell than from a branch in the same large map. Some final remarks. Depending on handwriting, aesthetic taste and paper size, one can experiment with 2x2, 3x3 or 4x4 cells. From my experience, it seems a good idea to assemble a personal tool box of stimuli. The Wikipedia page on problem solving or Project Zero at Harvard's Graduate School of Education are possible starting points. I organize the sheets in a zettelkasten - but that's another topic.

I'm from India. One of our Professors at JNU, New Delhi, told us of this wonderful method of mind mapping. That was way back in 2010.You're the only other person whom I have heard talking of this...👍

This lady is amazing. She is really good at giving presentations and mind maps are incredible by the way

so true. Mindmaps are amazing. It has changed the way I look at new information and take notes.

I agree with her that images and key words sticks in the brain easily 👍

I'm teaching a class for first semester college freshmen and we are in the part of class where I share different study or note taking strategies. I want to incorporate this video about mind mapping in case any of my students feel this would benefit them. Hazel can explain it MUCH better than I could!!

I just met Hazel. Mind-mapping has been a part of my life for years. She is right on the money.

thanks you very much . This ted is so good. i don't use mind map much before until i start studying university. i realize that diagram is very useful and if use it comformly, you will easier success. i listen this video more and more and more. her voice is warm and smoothy.

Two points of the talk came to my mind. First, Tony Buzan always stressed using single words on the branches and topics, but I was never able to do this with any regularity. Thanks for emphasizing that short phrases are also OK. Second, I will admit to striving to write ideas down, often verbatim. Now I realize that it is better to form the topic or idea and use your own words. Thanks.

That is a very helpful way to learn and takes notes easily God bless her

Not involve completely, she spoke so easy to hear for the person that's not good at english like me!. the way she represented is really clear!!

Thanks, Dr. Wagner. I'm sharing this with my class because we have to make a mind map for our assignment. I'll use this technique onwards!

Been following this method since I was a kid without knowing what it's called! nice speech

I keep thinking of keywords and keyword phrases when I listened to her. I think mind mapping is how to extract keywords and keyword phrases of a subject and connected them together, and also further develop them by branching out.

We used to do mind mapping as part of essay brainstorming in elementary/middle school, but I really wish it was a technique that was encouraged later on. I'm in grad school now and just going back to this, and I'm actually excited about taking notes.

This is a fabulous talk. Thank you. It has inspired me to commit to practicing mind-mapping and to help my kids do the same. I just have to accept that it won’t feel natural at first (at least not for me - hopefully the kids are young enough to still be comfortable at being beginners).

I wish they had a version of this talk where her example mind maps are more consistently up on the screen while she's verbally recreating other ted talks with them. I think that was her intention for the presentation format. Maybe Ted can re-edit?

I read a chapter and then use mind maps to do my revision and it has proven to be very helpful.

as a lifelong learner also I have always been interested in how people learn. this seems to me to be written mnemonics , which I have never been good at. many helpful applications, I will continue to try this.thank you

I used my Tempus Planner for daily planning to stay productive and the planner itself has mind mapping pages which I love. I found out that sketching out is helping me find solutions to a problem that I usually face.

i mind mapped this video about mind mapping. ( for practice) : )

Yes, been doing this for 40 years. Funny when people at work see me doing it, I get the strangest comments like I was doing something bizarre. Like oh I don't think that way or I don't have time to do that. I'm thinking who cares what you think!

Awesome!! I’ve never heard of mind mapping - cannot wait to utilize it!!! 🙏💯

I believe that the mind map is one of the best forms of study since with keywords and ideas you only have to learn the most important and a whole paragraph with things that don't matter much about the topic. This method is very important for children because helps the brain to better understand the subject.

Just watched a presentation by Dr. Hazel Wagner about Mind Mapping. I had never heard of the concept before. I found it very interesting and will try to utilize it. Besides Ms. Wagner is an excellent speaker and held my attention and as well as that of the audience when the camera panned them. All in all, well worthwhile viewing.

In language learning, mind mapping gives a great help to the learners. It can help them improve their speaking, writing, summarizing and of course reading. Great Video! Thanks!

Mindmap is useful. I learned it from a classmate when I was in the 9th grade and I usually use it for my study, especially when I want to take note of important ideas from a long passage.

I have been using it, and man it's been so useful. I am not able to remember easily, and enjoy learning, thank you ma'am!

I really love how her speaking, I think I can improve my english by watching her once

when i learned this technique my teacher called it brain storming a topic. It was taught in a journalism class in high school. I've used it since. I was thrilled to find mind mapping! I'm in an LXD course now online. Mind mapping isn't central to the teachings of the Life Long Learner principle. But I stil think its one of the best tools i have to induce thinking

Was struggling with self studying and UKposts recommended this...I'm thankful

i would like to know why the camera focuses so much in the audience, we cant even see who is

I remember my teacher telling me about this years ago except she called it a spider diagram. I think I was about 6 or 7 I still use it today especially for creative writing. The idea is that you get the ideas out quick and how one is connected to another. It works great.

This was a very valuable use of my time! Mind mapping can help everyone... and anyone.. be more productive! Thank you Hazel. 🤩

Excellent talk on mind mapping Hazel Wagner !

I’ve been using this technique almost 2years now wherein the meetings or studying and I gradually found that this mind mapping improved my mind logically a lot and even adjusted the speed of my thinking.

Can we commend her on how good she speaks at public? I aspire to become like this. She is a very good story teller.

I’ve done this and it’s actually works out. Thank you for sharing this💖

Thank you very much! I will definitely try it on my next training session.

That was such an amazing speech, I learnt a lot from that, thumb up!!!!!!

Greatly appreciate her presentation. For those who wish to use a computer-based tool, focused on mind-mapping, there is an excellent open-source application called "Freemind". The current "1.1.0 Beta2" is surprising rich in features.

Thank you so much for your talk!

This is fire 🔥 thank you 🙏🏾 had to rewatch a few parts to fully understand but I got it.

To my perception I consider that having an organized life is a great advantage, for this reason I think that the mind mapping is one of the best things to organize our ideas. As she says which we can use the brainstorming for generate ideas and later organize. Is a great point take this in the education because our brains receive better and like this learn better. Great video.