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Radial thinking<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The Mind Map Book<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mind maps are a tool for thinking. Instead of arranging your ideas in a sequence \u2014 as a list of words \u2014 you draw them in an arboreal fashion, radiating out from one starting notion. Mind maps use pictures instead of words, radial branches instead of linear lists, starfish instead of ladders, and associations instead of priorities \u2014 and as a result you think different. The visual trees you generate as you mindmap mirror the dendritic nature of our brain, and seem to flow more organically and (after practice) with less effort than the rigid discipline of making 1,2,3 textual notes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They are easy to doodle. Anyone can make them. Kids and CEOs as well as creative types. I\u2019ve come to employ this style of radial association in my own note taking and personal brainstorming. You don\u2019t need this book<\/a> to do it, but the book will help you refine your style, and it will help you expend its use. The authors, who\u2019ve been perfecting and evangelizing this technique for decades, offer advice on how to use mindmaps to teach, as a form of diary, and most importantly, as a group exercise, say in corporate brainstorming sessions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are software programs for mindmapping (which I have not tried), but for me the intensely kinetic mode of drawing ideas (if even on tiny scratch paper) is a great part of the technique\u2019s ability to produce new and different perspectives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

— KK<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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