[Music] do you need to come up with brilliant ideas or find Inspired Solutions to any problem Tony buan is the world's leading author and top lecturer on the brain and learning he has changed the lives of over 250 million people with his revolutionary system of mindmapping so what is a mind map a mindmap is a thinking tool that reflects externally what goes on inside your head the the Mind map was like a Swiss army knife for the brain anything I wanted to do in terms of thinking contemplation cognition remembering creating the Mind map was the
The Ideal tool for that mind mapping is straightforward and fun we start in the center of a blank page we connect branches to the central image and connect second and third level branches to the first and second and one the brain is radiant it thinks centrally and explodes out in all directions branches are curved and tapered rather than straight lined they are organic and free flowing as opposed to structured and uniformed the branches on a mind map are the reflection of the way the brain thinks so when you think of anything if you think of
chair you have your picture and then you have your associations of that that the brain thinks by imagination and Association the the reason why traditional note taking in lists and lines doesn't work actually is counterproductive is because it doesn't have the associations if you don't have associations you don't have connection if you don't have connection you don't have memory and you don't have thinking in a my map the branches are all always curved curvy linear reason why nature is curvy linear and if all the branches are straight it is literally rigid similar and therefore boring
the brain will very quickly get unhappy with a whole bunch of rigid straight lines it gets absorbed and intrigued by the beauty of cural linear we add one word to each branch one of the important points in structuring a mind map is to have one word per Branch why because if you have one word that one word with all its associations is free if you put them together you're making it more rigid and very simply for example if you were my mapping and you wanted to put Tony buzan if you put Tony buzan you've stuck
them together with glue but if you put buzan and then Tony You' got the freedom to radiate out my father my mother my brother the history of the name Etc so the single word per line gives you much more freedom much more creativity much more clarity ideally the length of the word should be the length of the branch for the very simple reason that if this word here is then placed next to this word here and the branch and the word of the same line then the meeting point is very close so the two words
are in space close I.E they're connected if you got one word little word here on a Long Branch and a little word over here in a Long Branch the words are disconnected we don't use color in notes traditionally because we are told not to in school all the research says exactly the opposite should be so we love color and studies at London University showed that people who use color and image in their imagination when they are learning and trying to remember inevitably do better than those who don't we use images throughout throughout a mind map
there should be key words and key images and if an image is easy for you to do you know inste of instead of people you can quickly just draw three little stick figures the image is a picture the picture is worth a thousand words another important point about the use of images the use of associations is that all the great Geniuses did that so if you start to use associations you start to use images externally you will join the pantheon of the great genus genes like Leonardo da Vinci Leonardo did it Darwin did it f
Hoven did it every genius used image and associations and the mind map is the process by which you can do that it's a it's a genius tool [Music]
