Learn here to explore your dynamic worldview, to watch your own learning in progress, and to hold the ideas of the past and present up to your own scrutiny.
Concept mapping is always an exercise in systemic thinking. It requires that you spell out the relationships between ideas. It leads to an ecology of mind, a semantic integration of your ideas, an exercise in personal thesaurus building. Concept mapping is brainforming.
Once you have a satisfactory concept map, the next and every step is to ground-truth it, to check the map against experience. As you move from course to course, from culture to culture, the map should grow in complexity and stability. New experiences will sometimes shock and shuffle the pattern into a maze, but eventually a new map will emerge to help you keep your center.