Mindmapping & Critique

Mind mapping to me is a process whereby we expand ideas in a visual manner. We can expand the ideas by having main points that later branched out to key little points. Mind map makes me explore my mind as I get to list down my ideas or key details that I want to remember. It also gives a certain focus to where you would want to emphasise at. There are many forms of mind mapping and personally, I like it to be more visual. Less words and more pictures/illustrations is good to me.

in class when we were told to draw a mind map about ourself

In class, we got to visit other group member's blog and see their works throughout these 4 weeks. We were told to list 5 things that they did well in and 5 things that they need to improve. Honestly, I do not like to criticise other's work as I believe that he/she had done or put in effort in producing the work. However, I thought to myself that if there's no one to voice out a particular thing, how are things going to move forward. For example, if there is no leader in Singapore, how will the country do economically, socially and other aspects. Surely there must be one who voices out. This is the same thing as our blog. If we keep ourselves in our comfort zone, there will be no progress. Good progress is what we want in life and one of the ways is to be critiqued. When we are being critiqued, it is actually a way to improve ourselves as we know our weakness and won't repeat it again. To sum up, yes being critiqued can bring your confidence down but it will eventually pay off as we improve ourselves better than last time.