Reflection paper of Art Street – Mind Mapping

Challenge    I’m a 5th year Electronics Engineering student in school, a youth leader to our home parish which is

St. Rose of Lima Parish at Teresa, Rizal, and I can say that I’m a friendly person, because I have lots of  friends. In studying my lectures, doing my projects, guiding youth, and becoming a friend and big brother to  my siblings which requires so many attention, and decisions to make. In line with this, I encounter many  problems and challenges regarding decision making and thinking about the best idea that I could think of. In  my journey to become an Engineer, I find it hard to think of the best idea. I have lots of group work, laboratory  activities, and projects that need to be done by team, and most of the time, because we have different minds  and different thinking, we can’t agree on the best idea that we can have. In my experience as a youth leader,  as an individual, I must touch every life of each youth that I’m handling and inspire them to do more, and to  become better in life. As I coach them or give them advice, my always question in myself is that “How I can  do it in different but effective way?”, and “Does my advice help them to be motivated?” And the hardest role  that I can be is to be a friend to others, and to be the big brother to my siblings. It is because every detail that  I will tell to them, every story that I will share, and every idea that I will feed to them, is must be accurate,  real, and which can boost their courage to step forward in life. Because every word I say, it can affect the  path of life that will be taking.    Selection    As what I’ve learn, mind mapping is a tool that you will think of a subject and its idea and sub-idea. I

chose the mind mapping tool rather than the other design tool because it helps me to become more creative.  I’m a busy person and needs to think for unique and best idea. Mind mapping helps me to think what is the  best idea what things that I should consider in making decisions, what are the important parameters that I  need to think about in decision making, and helps me to remember some key points and idea that sometimes  I forgot. This help me to think more specific and helps me to plan. I can say that mind mapping is the best  tool that anyone can have, because it will not require anyone, it will just require yourself and your own brain.  Meaning this toll will bring out the best idea that you could think, and the most important thing is that that idea  is from you, and no one can think of it.

Application    As early as I learned the tool, I use it already in my life. In decision making in school for school works,

I will gather my team, and think of the best way. Of course, we will use the mind mapping. First, we will have  our goal, and write it on the middle of a paper. Little by little, we will add some branches, which contains  some important points, ideas, and plans that are relevant to the subject. As a youth leader, I use this tool to  create and think to more effective way in inspiring my fellow youth. I will focus on what part or what topic that  I will be sharing to their lives and support it with some ideas, techniques, and activities that is relevant to the  subject, which will help them to absorb the topic and inspired them to apply it on their own life. For instance,  this Christmas season, I have a topic for “love”. I think of ways on other acts that is pertaining to love. Then  for my fellow youth to understand what truly it is, I will have some examples like video clips, and story that I  will share to them. In this way, I’m sure that they got something for me. And lastly I also use this tool in making  some decisions in some situations that can cause dilemma that will help my friends and especially my little  siblings. For example, my little brother has extra money and told me that he wants to buy a new toy, but tour  dog has no food to eat. This is the time that I will use the mind mapping, I will think for what is the best way  to do by thinking of the possible results on each actions. And because of this, it can help me to think what is  right to do.

Insight    This tool really helps me to improve my decision making abilities. In school, it helps me to decide

what is right to do. Also, it helps me to think the best idea that I could think for that project. Also, this tool  made me a better and more effective leader in my fellow youth. It help me to become a real leader that will  influence, guide, and lean my members, also in bringing out the best of them. And lastly, because of mind  mapping, it also help me to sacrifice what I want for what I need. It really helps me to become a better person,  and to do some matured and good decisions in life. The tool is really helpful in all aspects in life, especially  in decision making and thinking in a unique and best idea that you want.    Approach    In doing the tool, there are many situations to be consider. First, when the person who needs it is

just myself, I will just find some place to think about the topic and reflect to it. Another is that when it is group  work, since social media is now abundant, it can be a medium of our communication, but I don’t use this kind  of communication, I require my team to meet face to face to understand more clearly the topic and clear all  the ideas and concern regarding the topic that we need to discuss. Another situation is that when the topic is  to complex and I find it hard, I will use now the pen and paper. Starting from the middle of the paper, where  the subject is written, I will connect some branch for the idea, and some sub branches for the sub idea. There  are lots of way to do the mind mapping, and the important thing is that, you should know what idea to think,  and consider even those small idea because you will not complete the best idea if you can’t think and consider  those small details that you will have.

