For those (students, employees or business owners) who want to be able to improve their memories and think more clearly can employ the mind mapping method. A mind map is a tool that can help you organize your thoughts. It helps you to break down a subject or process for greater understanding.

Mind map allows you to draw a picture of your thought process and reinforce the information in your head by using visual elements or diagrams that involve the use of words, shapes and colors.

Mind map is a great tool to foster creative thinking. It encourages you to create your own thought process that reflects your way of thinking.

According to many psychological studies, creative thinking has four elements which include the use of shapes, colors, unusual elements, and dimensions. Creative thinking can adjust conceptual positions and create response to appealing objects.

Here are the steps to help you use mind map to foster your creative thinking:

• Choose a topic you’re interested in and simply write a key word or concept that represents the topic in the center of a piece of blank paper. The ideas that radiate from your mind should be indicated on the page. Try to generate ideas for twenty minutes. Even if some ideas seem absurd, jot them down because there are times when these ideas serve as the key to coming up with new ideas.

• Now create another mind map but this time, try to categorize the primary topic. For example, if the main topic is about the “Civil War in US”, you can draw a key word “Secession” that led to the formation of the Confederacy and the beginning of the Civil War. Basically, you link all the related concepts by building hierarchies. This will eventually form your thought process.

• Incubation – when you’re at rest, running, or sleeping, there are times when you experience sudden realizations. In this stage, the thinking process can create new breakthroughs.

• Integrate all the ideas and information found in your initial mind maps and try to create final comprehensive mind map.

• After you’ve created a comprehensive map, you can now look for the realization, decision, and solution since this was your original goal.

In the recent years, mind mapping has become easier as compared to the time it was first introduced. There is now software focused mainly on mind mapping. Computer-based mind mapping can help speed up the creation of shapes and diagrams which can in turn help reinforce the information in your brain more effectively.

You can start using mind mapping to uncover your creative thinking, create solutions and solve problems in your everyday life. It’s a very powerful tool.

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