अनेकता में एकता

Few months ago, I got the invitation to attend session on productivity technique Mind-Map. It was to be presented by a colleague in another department at STMicroelectronics Pvt Ltd, Greater Noida. I had been using this technique successfully for 7 years for now. But a very useful translation of some Shloka relating to 4-parts of learning just came to mind: - ¼ of learning happens from Guru/teacher, - ¼ from self-study, - ¼ from practice and - ¼ from peer discussion/experience sharing. It was a rare chance of peer sharing of rare technique. During and after the sessions, I went down my memory lane. First clear memory came of a time, when I shared this tool to a colleague who wanted to depict a directed-graph to demonstrate workflow of a GUI SW he was documenting. I had suggested ‘FreeMind’, a tool capable of drawing mind-maps. Mind-maps match Graph data structure very closely, so it naturally handles N-ary tree depiction. This pleased him and he successfully depi