cross-crawling: touch your left knee w/ your right hand as you lift your left leg. Then lift your right leg (bend at the knee) & touch it w/ your left hand. You are making an X for crossing the midline. This will pattern your brain for whole brain work. Skip doing it. Do it touching the heels: left w/ right hand & right w/ left hand. A little exercise & brain stimulation= very beneficial for studying. Trace a butterfly in the ceiling w/ your eyes. Start w/ the right wing & go clockwise & then counter clockwise w/ the left wing. Again it's a X.

Take FINANCIAL SERVICES INDUSTRY as the center of 1 mm. What are the main things you need to know about this industry. Each major thing has a branch.

Here are your BASIC ORDERING OF IDEAS to follow:
why, what, where, who, how, which, when
specific objects
most important categories
first 10 words or images that come to mind
themes, lessons, chapters
characteristics of things
what things do
how things work

Then do a MM for INTERMEDIARIES & apply the basic ordering of ideas questions

Do a MM for each of the things you listed. You'll have at least 4 large MMs. BUT, it'll all be there in front of you. Put'em on the wall or your door.

After you look at them for awhile, you'll begin to see all kinds of connections. By the time you are ready for your test, you may only have 1 or 2 MMs of ALL that material. Use colors to connect stuff. Maybe you will notice something on MM 1 that connects on MM 3. Use blue to visually connect them for your quickly.

Review is very fast & easy this way.


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Originally posted by Franklin_X:
Right now, all I've got is the book, so I'm not familiar with 'cross-crawling' or hook ups.
For mind mapping, i'm wondering, this text gives a full break down of the financial services industry, intermediaries, financing, understanding financial statements and includes many formulas. How would I organize all this on a MM?
I'll do some photoreading tonite of the text for now I guess, rest a bit (no time to read in the mornings) and super read? Postview? I need to know a ton of detail, not just the little things my mind's intuition says! In other words, I feel like I should essentially read the whole text! That's what bugs me a bit. Then the comprehension and memorization of the formulas...hmm.
For now, I'll just photoread and relax, but I need some further insight into the above mentioned areas!