Mind Mapping – Improve Memory, Concentration, Communication, Organization, Creativity & Time Management

We are now live in an information age. There is too much information to read, understand and remember.

Do you think one idea that can really change the world? Many times you have a great idea in your head, you want to plan something for your life or for a day.
You wish to do something like writing a blog, books, creating a presentation, writing essay, speech, fitness, brainstorm some subjects and many more but you don’t know how to organize it.
Nobody has taught us how to organize the thoughts, ideas and visualize something, Neither our school nor our colleges taught us on such subjects.
Anyone who can store and reproduce more information is considered as smart. What about others? Mindmaps are visual tools which help anyone to learn things faster.
So next time don’t reach for notebook and pen to scribble, take a big paper, crayons/Sketch-pens and lots of crazy emojis to create your own mind map.

What is a Mindmap?

Mind mapping is formalized by Tony Buzan. It is a powerful graphic technique you can use to translate what’s in your mind into a visual picture. You can write down the ideas and fact and then linked by lines and curves This helps to enhance your creativity and makes you become more productive, efficient and clear. You don’t have to worry about order and structure while doing it. The end result is that information is much better remembered.

Who can use this?

Anybody who has to deal with lots of information can benefit from mind mapping. This information can be found in your head, in books, documents or papers, in other people, etc.

How it helps Students?

1. Research by Toi (2009)iii shows that Mind Mapping can help children recall words more effectively than using lists, with improvements in memory of up to 32%.

2. According to Margulies (1991) vi, before children learn a language, they visualize pictures in their minds which are linked to concepts. Unfortunately, once children are trained to write only words in one colour, on lined paper, their creative channels and mental flexibility diminishes. Using images, like Mind Maps, keeps this creativity fired up

3. Enable to generate new ideas.

4. It helps to generate solutions to problems. It puts a new perspective on issues

5. Helps in studying and memorization

5. Plan and organize thinking. Creating a relationship with different data and information. Helps in doing research, structure essays and projects more effectively

6. Very important learning becomes more fun with colours, images, Emojis and keywords

So how does mind map looks like? How to create it? Better than explaining let me show you an example :

This is a mind map drawn on paper. The subject is shown in the centre. From this centre, branches with topics go outward. Each branch shows information on a certain topic. Notice that there is no connection between different branches! No straight lines only curves. Remember the tree? The stem is the subject, topics are branches, detail words are leaves on the branch.
A mindmap can be a wonderful companion when studying. You can summarize your books in a mind map. Often one book can fit in a single sheet mind map! Or you create a schedule of your papers, exams, assignments, etc. You will be amazed by how fast you will understand the information. Your insight is increased and you reduce study time.

Don’t worry too much about doing it the right away. Just do it and enjoy your own picture and don’t forget to share your mind map with us.