Mind mapping is an excellent tool to improve understanding. By drawing a mind map, we can turn the contents of a book into a thin piece of paper, which is very simple. To sum up, there are two main skills: preparation and application.
Browse.
Before we decide to read a book carefully, we should browse the whole book first. Grasp the "feeling" of the whole book. At this time, we can take a big piece of paper, or use a special mind map paper to draw a center map in the middle of the paper to summarize the theme or title of the book. If the cover and inside pages of the book have particularly eye-catching color images.
Let's take this picture as the center. If you have a very reasonable grasp of the main branch of the central image, you may wish to draw the main branch at the same time. They are often consistent with the main chapters or chapters of the book and the purpose of reading the book.
Set time and overall goals.
This can determine all the time you will spend on all the tasks of the book and the content contained in each learning cycle according to your learning objectives, the content and difficulty of the book, and the total amount of knowledge you have mastered.
Draw knowledge related to books with mind map.
No matter what the mind map you just drew, just take a few pieces of paper and draw the mind map as quickly as possible, and you can draw the relevant knowledge you are about to learn. This includes any information you got when you leafed through the book in front, plus general knowledge, or all the information you have about the subject now.
This result will surprise many people, because they will be surprised to find that they know much more about some topics than they expected. It can also let you see the advantages and disadvantages of your own knowledge field and let you know which knowledge needs to be further compensated.