What I find most interesting about mapping out your information is that it usually is done on only one piece of paper. This gives you the advantage of viewing all your material at once. You don’t need to flip through your sheets. Yesterday you created an overview of yourself. How did that go? Was it ...…
As you know, I train many people in mind mapping. But, this is not something I teach them to use as a tool on its own. They have to use it with for instance (speed) reading and note taking. A mindmap is only a tool. Yes, a powerful tool, but only a tool. A mindmap ...…
One of the most interesting things happens when people start to mindmap. I tell my students to use more images when mapping their information. I let them know they need to make a nice picture of their notes. They learn to use different colors. And what happens next? About 90% of them creates a map ...…
All day long, we are interacting with data and we are producing it. Most of the data is received without our conscious mind playing an active role in this. People usually think they are in control (most of the time) and they are making the decisions (most of the time). Fortunately, we are not. The ...…
Again, we return in these Mindmap Circle articles to our childhood. Besides the fact that ‘everything was better’ when we were young and time wasn’t going this fast as it is nowadays, there is something else important to learn from when we were young. Who told you how to start drawing pictures and creating these ...…
In the Mindmap Circles series, we enter the second circle. In the previous article we discussed that most people start their lives as natural visual thinkers and visual mappers. After that, they learn how to think in a more linear format by using written words in their communications. Especially in the Western world, we have ...…
