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[itisnotlogical]

Yep

[Aklyon]

I tried to make use of one of those once outside of class and ended up uninstalling the program and writing things down in notepad++ isntead.

[Baffler]

Yeah, as far as I can tell they serve no purpose beyond possibly teaching 2nd and 3rd graders to organize their thoughts in a way they can see in a more concrete way than a written outline.

[Harry Baldman]

Has anybody heard of mind mapping? Or worse, been forced to do it for an assignment?

It is literally the dumbest thing ever. The concept of mind mapping is like... drawing a floor plan for a house before you walk in. It's totally unhelpful, mostly guesswork and conjecture, and you'll have to throw it out when you start working anyway. In this case, writing a persuasive speech for my Public Speaking class.

If somebody has an actual use case for mind mapping that wasn't forced upon them, my head will pop.

It's pretty much brainstorming, but for a single person and on paper. Might be helpful (and potentially amusing) if you go into automatic writing mode. The whole point if I understand correctly is to try and get your thoughts flowing by what amounts to word association. Not a plan by any means, just an attempt to tabulate any options that come to mind.

For a speech, for example, you'd try and get the issues you'd like to address into a diagram to see how they interconnect and how you can segue from one to the next, maybe.

Really, though, it's kind of like introducing a new standard in the hopes of simplifying things. It seems like a great idea in theory, but the fact you need to expend extra effort to get it to work in the presence of other standards defeats the entire point.

[itisnotlogical]

I'd say it's more like the brainstorming that got mocked in that one episode of South Park, where the person is just shouting unrelated ideas and going off on a tangent while doing nothing to actually solve the problem.

[Amperzand]

I'd call it a marginally less useless variety of procrastination.

[Empiricist]

I'd call it a marginally less useless variety of procrastination.

Misread "procrastination" as "procreation" and become really confused for a moment.

[Amperzand]

Pfftthahahahahaha

[miauw62]

The book we're studying in French class reads like a bad erotic fanfiction. Like. Wow. This shit is terrible. Really terrible. Like. Bluh. I need to cleanse my brain, preferably with fire.

What little I remember from my french classes 15 years ago makes me certain that almost all french literature reads like bad erotic fanfiction.
I don't actually remember much of the books we were forced to read, but I remember that the usual reaction among my class was pretty much always along the lines of "the fuck did I just read, I don't even".

apparently books where french ladies dance naked around their office (as in floor of a skyscraper where a company operates from) in the middle of the night while hallucinating are considered literature so pretty much

[Flying Dice]

The French have made cultural bank by pretending that obtuse weirdness is high art.

[Helgoland]

Huh, I thought that sort of sentiment was only widespread here vis-a-vis visual arts. Huh.

[Loud Whispers]

The French have made cultural bank by pretending that obtuse weirdness is high art.

Look at this cultural philistine, not warbling French impressionist pictures of filmographic contrapuntal Adlerian analyses of the mind from a postconstructionist viewpoint of the turquoise pigment

BEGONE! I must watch observe more Cocteau to recover from your cultural barbarism

[Neonivek]

BEGONE! I must watch observe more Cocteau to recover from your cultural barbarism

Kind of Ironic given that Cocteau was against the sort of high-society high-art garbage that was coming out at the time.

[Orange Wizard]

Knowing LW, that's probably intentional.

[TheBiggerFish]

LW:Meta since ever.