One of the most essential skills when it comes to success is the skill of writing. Notice I said “skill” and not talent. While I believe talent has to be present, it doesn’t have to be the only thing that allows you to write. You can become a good writer and you can definitely become a better writer.
Mind mapping is a creative way to take notes and learn new information. I’m fairly new to it and I’m trying to apply it to the books I’m reading and even blogs and sites I’m reading online. I really like the way you’re basically doodling and learning at the same time. For a thorough definition of mind mapping, visit this wikipedia article: mind mapping.
Every night before I went to sleep, I used to write down this phrase:
“I want to wake up a different person.”
And I meant it. Sometimes I meant it literally, as in I wanted to wake up as George Clooney or Bill Gates. Other times I meant it imaginatively, as in I wanted to wake up as Howard Roark from Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead or… Batman. Regardless of who I wanted to wake up as, it was clear who I did not want to be when I woke up: myself.
Honestly, my intention, when I wrote this down, was to try to become a “better” person. At the time (about 4 years ago) I was trying to excel in my particular philosophy (which I’ve now come to see as just another philosophy in itself), but also, I wanted to be a better person in the general sense of the meaning. If I could go back, I would’ve told myself, “Hey, you need to be more productive, you need to write more, you need to read more, you need to make goals and try to meet them…” and on and on.
If you haven’t heard of the show Dexter that comes on Showtime every Sunday night at 9pm EST, now you have, and you have no excuse for not watching it (well, unless you don’t have showtime). Dexter is a show about a forensics specialist for the Miami PD who has a little problem: he likes to kill people. Dexter is a serial killer with one exception… he only kills killers.
First off, I’d like to welcome you to Memory Strategy. This is my journey to become a better, more productive person, and while the name suggests that it’s centered around improving your memory (which is one aspect that will definitely be covered) this blog is dedicated to self improvement. Of course, that may seem like a relative term. As Tyler Durdon, in the legendary film Fight Club, states: “Self improvement is masturbation.”
