I am a student of class 11, that is, I still go to high school and thus, have no work experience of  any sort. But I think that the concepts that I learnt in this Course can be basically applied to any  problem, Design Thinking can be applied for finding solutions and answers to any situation.     CHALLENGE AND SELECTION:  There is this project that I received in school. We have to do an activity in which we have to  approach as many entrepreneurs in our reach and do a Case Study on them. For such a situation,  in which I have to dig into the daily routines of entrepreneurs, look into their journeys as  businessmen and businesswomen, I think the best way to sort out all this information is to listen  thoroughly to what the person has to say, and then later sit, reflect and make a mind map of  what I have learnt.   Using Mind Mapping and then collaborating all the information from different entrepreneurs to  form a proper Case Study would be good, easier and way informative.    APPLICATION:   During this Case Study, I created Mind Maps for collaborating what a day of an average  entrepreneur looked like. I also had to look into the different stories and journeys these people  had had. As Professor had quoted in her course that when she did something analytical she  made a list and that when she had to do something creative, she made a mind map. This project  involved finding all about the different entrepreneurs including their starting initiatives, the  risks that were involved, the challenges that they faced, how they hadled loss, how they worked  in different situations. I asked them to make mind maps so that I could gather more qualitative  information about their works. In these Mind Maps , I asked them to reflect what they  associated their organizations, firms or initiatives with.    APPROACH:  I think I could also go on with Journey Mapping for the part of the project in which they  described their journey to try and get to know more about the degree of risk, the competition  they faced in their markets, etc. Thus, both Journey Mapping and Mind Mapping could be  beneficial to reach at a clearer, informative report.    INSIGHT:  These Design Thinking tools simplify the process of understanding people’s thought processes  or what a problem is and how it can be solved smartly and efficiently. I learned from this course  that when people say that we should not go over the problem and think about the solution, it is  very wrong, since, until we look at a problem properly, we would probably never reach a good  solution. I also found Mind Mapping a very attractive tool. I feel that instead of Diary writing  people should actually make mind maps of what they have done that day as it would be much  more fun than going over essays and also Mind Maps would be more productive. After using this  approach for my Case Study I found it a very simple process for processing diverse information  and then analysing, summing it up!

