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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I was listening to Tim Ferriss this weekend. He is the author of The 4 Hour Workweek. Tim used a wonderful term that will help us a lot in dealing with the information overload.
He said we should cultivate selective ignorance – using a low-information diet. You do have to make sure you use high quality information of course!
Here is the definition:
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OK, by now I hope you started to use your mindmaps (a little bit more).
As you know, your mindmap will be serving as your personal or professional assistant. I prefer to view my mindmaps as my personal assistants, even when used in a business environment.
The reason for this view is simple: Most of my mindmap are showing my interpretation of a certain topic. It doesn’t matter if this is a personal, academic or business situation or topic. It is my personal view which is expressed via the map. Therefore, I consider most of my mindmaps as personal assistants.
OK, you have this mindmap which helps you. You ‘feed’ it with information. You manage the content.
BUT…
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I think I’ve made so many ‘mistakes’ when creating mindmaps… All of them helped me in getting better and better in actually using the technique for reaching my goals and working on my tasks.
When working with hundreds of people I’ve seen that most people go through different stages in creating mindmaps.
And you know what?
Most people make the same ‘mistakes’. That made me think. What if you could receive a good overview of ‘mistakes’ people make. That way you can prevent yourself from making them!
Below is a list of the 11 biggest mistakes people make when mind mapping. Be sure to understand them. When you do, I am confident you are able to improve your mindmaps even more from now on.
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