Figure 5-4: Talk about Taiwan.
Step 4: Testing the Mind Map
Basically it doesn’t really matter how you prepare the content of a lecture: but before you deliver the lecture to your audience you should try it out on yourself at least once. This also applies to your Mind Mapping document. By testing it in this way you can:
Check whether the Mind Map has enough detail.
Determine whether the structure of the Mind Map meets the requirements of the lecture.
Practise your lecture so that you feel even more confident when you actually deliver it.
If during the test procedure you notice that some of the branches of the Mind Map are not detailed enough for you, then you still have time to correct this. It may often be the case that you:
Find a handier keyword for a branch.
Add further details in the form of sub-branches.
Incorporate images, symbols and colour codes to add more information and meaning to the Mind Map.
After this test you can of course make further changes to the structure so the Mind Map is ideally suited to your presentation.
And Now for an Example
All theory is dull, so here’s an example of a lecture manuscript which I’ve already prepared.
Figure 5-4 shows a lecture manuscript for a talk lasting around 15 minutes on Taiwan. I gave this lecture some years ago. The Mind Map contains only basic keywords, sufficient for recalling content. As I’d lived there for a year and was intensely involved at that time with the country’s politics I didn’t need any additional information. The Mind Map is mainly drawn in black and white. The red, green and blue colours stand for various political figures whom I’ve marked accordingly.
The Mind Map was my personal manuscript, seen only by me and not by my audience. The lecture was accompanied by photos of Taiwan which supported the main theme.
Reading mind maps in sequence . . . or not
As I’ve already shown in Chapter 3, on Mind Mapping rules, there’s no fixed sequence in which the main branches of a Mind Map should be read. You can also determine the sequence of all the branches by numbering them, as this figure makes clear.
But there’s also a natural sequence in which Mind Maps can be read. You start at one o’clock and then work round the Mind Map clockwise. As for the sub-branches of a Mind Map, you start again at the top and also work round them in clockwise fashion. The figure belowt shows how this is done.
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