Mind Maps
• Mind mapping
• a highly effective way of getting information in and
out of your brain
• a creative and logical means of note-taking and note-
making
• literally "mapping out" your ideas.
Mind Maps
• have a natural organisational structure that radiates from the
centre
• use lines, symbols, words, colour and images according to
simple, brain-friendly concepts
• converts a long list of monotonous information into a colourful,
memorable and highly organised diagram
• works in line with your brain's natural way of doing things
Mind Maps
• One simple way to understand a Mind Map is by comparing it to a
map of a city:
• The city center represents the main idea;
• the main roads leading from the center represent the key thoughts in
your thinking process;
• the secondary roads or branches represent your secondary thoughts,
and so on.
• Special images or shapes can represent landmarks of interest or
particularly relevant ideas.
Mind Maps
• The great thing about mind mapping is:
• that you can put your ideas down in any order, as soon as they
pop into your head.
• You are not constrained by thinking in order.
• Simply, throw out any and all ideas, then worry about
reorganising them later.
• So, the mind map is the external mirror of your own thinking
facilitated by a powerful graphic process
Mind Maps
• The Five Essential Characteristics:
• The main idea, subject or focus is crystallized in a central image
• The main themes radiate from the central image as 'branches'
• The branches comprise a key image or key word drawn or printed on its
associated line
• Topics of lesser importance are represented as 'twigs' of the relevant
branch
• The branches form a connected nodal structure
How to Make a Mind Map ?
• Think of your general main theme and write that down in the center of
the page
• Figure out sub-themes of your main concept and draw branches to
them from the center, beginning to look like a spider web
• Make sure to use very short phrases or even single words
• Add images to invoke thought or get the message across better
• Try to think of at least two main points for each sub-theme you created
and create branches out to those
