To make a mind map, a person leaves a linear, left-brain view of the world and begins to engage the right side of their brain instead. This means making use of more visual thinking, linking relationships in webs rather than straight lines. After spending years using the educational methods taught in society for so many decades, even centuries, this might seem like an ineffective way of learning anything. But it just might be a way of expanding learning into realms that have been neglected before now.
The use of such mind tools isn’t intended to be exclusionary and shut left-brain thinking right out. Rather, people who talk about these tools hope that the world can learn to add right-brain thinking as a method that works in partnership with the centuries old, tried-and-true methods employed by the left brain. The goal is to discover relationships and possibilities that might never have been recognized in the left-brain way of approaching knowledge. Learning to make a mind map may be a way of expanding that knowledge beyond its previous boundaries.
So how does one begin making a mind map? One starts with a central concept or idea, written on a piece of paper, a white or blackboard, or perhaps on a computer screen. Then the brainstorming begins. One can do this alone, but it’s even more effective with several people. Everyone tosses out any idea they think of that relates to that central concept, and all ideas are written down. Once everyone is done, all the concepts are analyzed and gathered into broad themes that suggest themselves, essentially doing visual mapping to link common ideas together.
The brainstorming is a large part of making the visual map, but once all the ideas have been written down, there are further steps needed to make a mind map. Seeing the concepts all at once, with everything contained in a complete picture, relationships between those ideas begin to appear. Certain things that might never have been taken into account before may suddenly be recognized as vitally important. As related ideas are now grouped together, the original idea may be seen in a more complete context. The techniques used to create a mind map advance a fuller way of understanding information.
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