Mind Maps
About Mind Maps
Mind Maps are more compact than conventional notes, often taking up one side of paper. This helps you to make associations easily, and generate new ideas. If you find out more information after you have drawn a Mind Map, then you can easily integrate it with little disruption.
More than this, Mind Mapping helps you break large projects or topics down into manageable chunks, so that you can plan effectively without getting overwhelmed and without forgetting something important.
A good Mind Map shows the "shape" of the subject, the relative importance of individual points, and the way in which facts relate to one another. This means that they're very quick to review, as you can often refresh information in your mind just by glancing at one. In this way, they can be effective mnemonics - remembering the shape and structure of a Mind Map can give you the cues you need to remember the information within it. As such, they engage much more of your brain in the process of assimilating and connecting information than conventional notes do.
When created using colors and images or drawings, a Mind Map can even resemble a work of art!
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Notes. Whenever information is being taken in, mind maps help organize it into a form that is easily assimilated by the brain and easily remembered. They can be used for noting anything -- books, lectures, meetings, interviews, phone conversations.
Recall. Whenever information is being retrieved from memory, mind maps allow ideas to be quickly noted as they occur, in an organized manner. There's no need to form sentences and write them out in full. They serve as quick and efficient means of review and so keep recall at a high level.
Creativity. Whenever you want to encourage creativity, mind maps liberate the mind from linear thinking, allowing new ideas to flow more rapidly. Think of every item in a mind map as the center of another mind map.
Problem solving. Whenever you are confronted by a problem -- professional or personal -- mind maps help you see all the issues and how they relate to each other. They also help others quickly get an overview of how you see different aspects of the situation, and their relative importance.
Planning. Whenever you are planning something, mind maps help you get all the relevant information down in one place and organize it easily. They can be used for planning any piece of writing from a letter to a screenplay to a book (I use a master map for the whole book, and a detailed sub-map for each chapter), or for planning a meeting, a day or a vacation.
Presentations. Whenever I speak I prepare a mind map for myself of the topic and its flow. This not only helps me organize the ideas coherently; the visual nature of the map means that I can read the whole thing in my head as I talk, without ever having to look at a sheet of paper.
Mind Mapping - Basic Rules
The rules for producing Mind Maps are very simple and can be adapted to suit your personal preference.
Take a piece of paper and draw a rectangle in the centre of the page
Inside the rectangle write the name of the topic that you want to mind map.
As each major idea or theme emerges from your brain draw a line radiating from the rectangle.
Write the name of the major idea above each line.
Don't spend too much time writing neatly or drawing nice straight lines
- go for SPEED not NEATNESS.
Within a short space of time yout Mind Map will begin to take shape.
Don't be too alarmed if it looks as if a spider, with ink on its feet has crawled across the page.
Mind Maps are personal records of thought processes and are normally PRIVATE.
Once you have finished generating ideas and constructing the Mind Map you can start analysing the information shown on the mind map.
Look for linkages - pieces of information at the end of a path that can be linked together in some way. Links can be shown by labelling the common points with letters, figures or by drawing a curve between two points.
If the Mind Map is being used as the basis for a talk or for planning purposes, then each major line radiating from the central rectangle could be labelled numerically to show its sequence.
As each idea materialises, quickly check whether the idea is an extension of an existing idea.
If it is, then just continue the line.
If the idea is a variation of an existing idea
then draw a branch off of the central line and label it.
If the idea is something totally and utterly new, then draw a brand new line from the rectangle in the center of the page.
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