What are mind maps and how do you use them effectively

Hi, I'm and I am the manager of the script writing team here at osmosis. And today I like to go over my maps and why they're a fantastic learning tool and how we incorporated them into our videos.

So my maps are a way to visually represent a schema or the way information is organized in your head. So you start out with a central idea or keyword and then you draw many branches outwards each connected to a related idea.

So for example, let's say you want to learn about the indirect colon mimetic medications. So here's a mind map from our video on the topic.

We use indirect colon mimetics is the central idea and we put that in the middle of the screen. Now we have two branches going to the left and right.

It's representing the two groups of drugs we wanna talk about. So we have the drugs that doesn't cross the blood brain barrier, going to the left and then the drugs that do cross the blood brain barrier going to the right.

So from there, we can draw out a branch for the indications and another for the contraindications or side effects it's just that simple.

Now, the key benefit of a my map is that by drawing out the schema, you can see how all the pieces of information are related to each other in a hierarchy.

Something that's not very easy to do with just written notes or powerpoint slides. So we can even use colors and images to make the my map more memorable.

For example, all the side effects and contraindications are in red. All the drug names are in blue and all the indications are in yellow.

Now, you might have noticed that there are images all over my map, like all these little stags and all these people. So these are from another technique we use in our video called the Memory palace.

And the memory palace is a mnemonic technique that turns information into images and then we put them in our location. This will help you memorize the information because the brain has an easier time retaining images and locations as opposed to abstract concepts like drug names.

So for example, if you want to remember, Edrophonium is used to manage Myasthenia gravis, we can have a na we can have a man named Ed drop his phone onto a gravestone.

So by combining the memory palace and my maps, we help you memorize the information and then organize them to create a schema.

So you retain the relationships too. So that's pretty much it on my maps.

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