Week Five: Mindmap II

For this week's class, we were supposed to try out Mindmapping as a form of brainstorming. The given topic was: "What makes a happy life?" 

This would be the first "branch" of my mindmap as I feel that relationships with people are very important factors. These include relationships with my family, friends and people I work with.

Next, I think that freedom is another key factor to a happy life. 

Shane wrote about acceptance. It is true that we all need acceptance to be happy as we need to know there are people that will love us unconditionally no matter what we are.

Stability is extremely important in Singapore. Without some sort of an assurance, people will be living each there with worries, not knowing what tomorrow will bring. It is important that we save for rainy days and buy insurance for our loved ones.

An aerial view of the mindmap.

Shane writing with a highlighter.

Another angle

The other group working on their mindmap

The topic.

Rolling up and time to go home.

Shane and I were in a group and we had almost the same thoughts on happiness in life. Perhaps it was due to the fact that we were both the same age or that we are both Singaporeans.... I don't know? I guess that people from different countries have different thoughts on happiness... Some of them might think that education, peace and financial stability are more important factors, some might think that a well-fed stomach would be good enough.

For me, I think I'm happy enough so long as my country is safe, my parents are healthy and working, and that I have enough money to spend and pamper myself occasionally.

We started branching out the main branches to many other little subbranches as part of the exercise. Indeed, mindmapping is a clearer way to organize all my thoughts in a neat way that is easy to understand. While brainstorming might be useful, it seems messier as we can't see where the train of thought is branched out from. Therefore, whenever I need to clear my thoughts and arrange them, I'll always opt for mindmapping instead.