Mind Mapping For Dummies

Unlock your brain's potential using mind mapping

Mind mapping is a popular technique that can be applied in a
variety of situations and settings. Students can make sense of
complex topics and structure their revision with mind mapping;
business people can manage projects and collaborate with colleagues
using mind maps, and any creative process can be supported by using
a mind map to explore ideas and build upon them. Mind maps allow
for greater creativity when recording ideas and information
whatever the topic, and enable the note-taker to associate words
with visual representations.

Mind Mapping For Dummies explains how mind mapping works,
why it's so successful, and the many ways it can be used. It takes
you through the wide range of approaches to mind mapping, looks at
the available mind mapping software options, and investigates
advanced mind mapping techniques for a range of purposes, including
studying for exams, improving memory, project management, and
maximizing creativity.

• Suitable for students of all ages and study levels

• An excellent resource for people working on creative projects
  who wish to use mind mapping to develop their ideas

• Shows businesspeople how to maximize their efficiency, manage
  projects, and brainstorm effectively

If you're a student, artist, writer, or businessperson, Mind
Mapping For Dummies shows you how to unlock your brain's
potential.

Autorentext

Florian Rustler is a licensed Mind Mapping trainer based in Munich, who trained with Tony Buzan. Within the last six years he has given more than 300 Mind Mapping seminars. Some of the organisations he has worked with include Bosch, MTU, Siemens and Volkswagen as well as various trade chambers and universities.

Zusammenfassung
Unlock your brain's potential using mind mapping Mind mapping is a popular technique that can be applied in a variety of situations and settings. Students can make sense of complex topics and structure their revision with mind mapping; business people can manage projects and collaborate with colleagues using mind maps, and any creative process can be supported by using a mind map to explore ideas and build upon them. Mind maps allow for greater creativity when recording ideas and information whatever the topic, and enable the note-taker to associate words with visual representations.

Mind Mapping For Dummies explains how mind mapping works, why it's so successful, and the many ways it can be used. It takes you through the wide range of approaches to mind mapping, looks at the available mind mapping software options, and investigates advanced mind mapping techniques for a range of purposes, including studying for exams, improving memory, project management, and maximizing creativity.

• Suitable for students of all ages and study levels
• An excellent resource for people working on creative projects who wish to use mind mapping to develop their ideas
• Shows businesspeople how to maximize their efficiency, manage projects, and brainstorm effectively
  If you're a student, artist, writer, or businessperson, Mind Mapping For Dummies shows you how to unlock your brain's potential.

Inhalt

Foreword xvii

Introduction 1

About This Book 1

Conventions Used in This Book 2

Foolish Assumptions 2

How This Book is Organised 2

Part I: Mind Mapping: The Swiss Army Knife for the Brain 3

Part II: Traditional Mind Mapping in Practice 3

Part III: Mind Mapping Software 3

Part IV: Advanced Strategies for Mind Mapping 3

Part V: The Part of Tens 4

Icons Used in This Book 4

Where to Go from Here 4

Part I: Mind Mapping: The Swiss Army Knife for the Brain 7

Chapter 1: Introducing Mind Mapping 9

Presenting Information Visually 9

Give it a try! 10

Taking the Mind Map a stage further 12

A little reflection please 13

A Simple Technique with Many Applications 14

'Cribs' for lectures and presentations 15

Taking notes from texts and books 15

Taking notes from presentations and discussions 15

Project management 16

Knowledge management 16

Pen and Paper or Computer? 17

Revising Mind Maps 18

Advanced Strategies Using Mind Mapping 19

Chapter 2: Visualising Information 21

How and Why Visualisation Can Help You 21

Text as a form of visual information 22

Reducing complexity and presenting information in a different way 22

Two examples 22

Visualising Information as a Core Skill 24

What science has to say 25

The visualisation method used for Mind Mapping 27

Chapter 3: Generating Mind Maps 29

The Basic Rules: Helping You to Use Mind Mapping Effectively 30

Branches it's all connected 30

Keywords instead of phrases 32

The exception proves the rule 34

A Picture Says More Than a Thousand Words 35

Colours not just pretty to look at 35

Your personal set of symbols 36

Boxes and clouds highlighting what's important 38

Making arrow connections quite clear 39

Chapter 4: Why Mind Mapping Works 41

Different Routes to Information 42

Pictures: Unique and unforgettable 43

A picture says more than a thousand words 44

How we think 45

Mind Mapping as a Brain-Friendly Technique 46

More Than Just the Sum of its Parts 48

The big picture and details 48

More information dimensions and greater information density 48

Part II: Traditional Mind Mapping in Practice 51

Chapter 5: Preparing Talks and Lectures Using Mind Maps 53

Freedom and Flexibility with Mind Maps at All Times 53

Preparing Lectures: Step by Step 55

Step 1: Marshalling your initial thoughts 55

Step 2: Determining the main themes 57

Step 3: Adding detail 58

Step 4: Testing the Mind Map 59

And Now for an Example 59

Chapter 6: Handling Text with Mind Mapping 61

Converting Text and Sentences into a Mind Map 61

Example: Motivation 62

Example: Email guideline 65

Interlude: Scientific Definitions as a Mind Map 67

Processing Whole Books with Mind Mapping 68

The best way of dealing with the text 70

Chapter 7: Note-Taking in Talks, Lectures and Meetings 73

Block Text or Mind Map 73

Characteristics of talks, lectures and meetings 75

Give it a try! 77

Colour and symbol codes 79

Informative Conversations 80

Just Write It Out Using Your Wandering Thoughts 80

Mind Mapping = in out to the power of ten 81

Part III: Mind Mapping Software 83

Chapter 8: Software versus Traditional Mind Mapping 85

Software versus Pen and Paper The Main Differences 86

The advantages of Mind-Mapping software over pen and paper 88 Mind-Mapp...