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I’ve been writing a lot about mindmaps, mind mapping, visual mapping and related topics. I speak with many people and I write with even more people about how to USE visuals to create clarity in our lives.
I have a very important and serious question for you.
A question that I hope raises many, many new question. Here it is:
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Please read first and then create your own opinion then. I believe we need to change the world of mind mapping and you and I are able to do this. Here’s why I write this and what we have to do:
Have you been listening to all these people who are stimulating left and right brain thinking and their use of mind mapping?
They know exactly what their left and right brain side are doing. They understand that normal linear writing is very left brain oriented. And to improve our ways of managing our information and improving creativity, we need to use our right brain side as well.
This is great… until you see what they do next…
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A very interesting question from Brian Tracy: Do you know how often people try something new (on average)?
The answer: Less then once!!!
That’s right. People often don’t even try something new. Most people are saying they want to learn and have exciting jobs. We all want new experiences. But when it comes to it… people just want to keep things the way they are.
I wonder.
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Most people look at mindmaps as being a nice picture of some information. They see the art of the map. The end result is an image. The end result is art.
Business people look at mindmaps as a cold/logical approach to visualizing all this information they have to deal with. They create the map using the rules and directions of mind mapping, or more in general visual mapping, and they simply create the map: Just follow the steps and you are fine…
The end result is an overview of the information. Sometimes it looks like a real image, often is it just a diagram of schematic overview.
I truly believe mind mapping is more than following the rules of mind mapping that Mr. Tony Buzan writes about in his books.
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Lately I’ve been reading many books on how people perceive their information and their environment. You and I can find a great deal of wisdom in a perhaps surprising book. I will not yet ‘reveal’ the title of the book. That’s something or later.
Here are some thoughts you and I should be looking at when we create our next overview of information.
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I’ve been really busy these last couple of weeks/months training people and creating new materials for practical solutions. Right now, I only want to share with you a tip I saw helps so many people every day in their usage of mindmaps.
You see, most people don’t really want to create mindmaps that use images, colors and are fun to look at.
People want to get clarity on the things they are thinking about, what bothers them, what makes them move forward, what holds them back and what they actually don’t know 
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All these things are important to people. They are important to you!
That is why I (often without knowing) have been preaching to people they should use their mindmaps in such a way their mindmaps work for them. No point working on your mindmaps simply to create a mindmap. When you do that, the tool becomes a goal and you don’t move forward.
Create maps that work for you. In 95% of all cases, this means you hardly use any images in your mindmap. You only give structure to the thoughts, ideas and information you have in your head. You combine this with the information that floats around you.
For me, this results in visual maps that give me overview. I might call them practical mindmaps. I could also call them summaps (summary maps) that summarize the information into practical knowledge I can use to move forward.
You do this as well. Create practical overviews. I don’t really care how you like to call them. Call them mindmaps, visualmaps, concept maps, idea maps of summaps. The name and the (software) tool are the least important, the result is what counts.
Imagine yourself setting at your desk… looking at the map you just created and finally understanding your life, business or personal situation. You see in one overview the path you have to follow to create the results you are looking for.
At that single moment in time, you don’t think about a name to describe the technique that led you to this overview. You simply want to move forward… because you now know how to.
That is the feeling I give people when I mentor them into creating practical overviews.
That is the feeling I want you to experience.
Create practical overviews and you are on your way to realizing that!
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