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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I received a question from a visitor who is part of our mindmap community. He told me that mindmaps without images are in fact more spider maps. That is true. The mindmap is a very visual overview of the information, filled with color and images.
Now how to find images for those words that are not easily transformed into an image (for instance love, smell, good)?
Let’s have a look at three different techniques I use to find the right images.
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Before your weekend starts, I want to give you something to think about.
This is something that helps the more professional mindmap creator probably more than the beginners in mind mapping.
In fact… this is one of the human traits that limits the effect of mindmaps… a lot!
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Mind mapping wherever, whenever. That sounds really interesting. I want to discuss three ways with you to create mindmaps wherever you are.
Here are first four basic guidelines a tool has to offer me to create mindmaps:
1. Create any type of mindmap
2. Easy to carry around and 24×7 at my disposal
3. Allows easy mind mapping
4. Requires hardly any training to use (when you know about mind mapping)
For me, mobile mind mapping is something that helps me to capture my thoughts and ideas. I am not really looking for a tool that lets me mindmap together with others. When I do that, I want to have a nice big computer screen or white board to use.
Here are three types of mindmap solutions that will help you and me in this.
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Whenever you are looking for great ideas, new insights or you are just looking for answers, you should consider using a mindmap for getting results. Of course there are other forms of visual mapping you could consider as well. Let’s focus on the mindmap today. I’m confident you can apply these thoughts on different mapping methods as well.
There are two things you have to consider when you are capturing and overviewing your thoughts. Here they are.
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As you probably know, the traditional mindmap should be created using lots of colors. Use at least 3 to 5 different colors.
The centre of the mindmap is especially important. Tony Buzan writes in his books that the centre needs special attention. You should at least:
- create an image of your topic
- use 3 to 5 colors to draw the image in the centre
A question
My question for you is: Do you do this as well?
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