Improve Planning & Communication
The way you learn, and subsequently remember, bears a strong relationship to the way your senses operate, and a very high proportion of your sensory learning is visual.
Mind maps are the key to understanding the organisation and structure of complex information. They are models of your thoughts, so they are personal and differ from individual to individual, and represent explicitly the ways thoughts interrelate.
The act of constructing a mind map of your own can be a key stage in crystallising your own understanding. By creating connections, you can assimilate, associate and retain new information more effectively than by using linear text.
Mind mapping is relevant to all thinkers, irrespective of their thinking style or cognitive ability.
And using symbols makes it possible to present a great deal of visual information on a mind map in a very effective, space-efficient way:
Mapping can be used to develop the four essential thinking skills:
- Creating engagement in a subject, topic or idea
- Sustaining and deepening concentration
- Organising information and stimulating creative new associations
- Constructing memorable new meanings
Use Cornerstone: Visual Thinking for:
- Planning and organising work (books, reports, essays, meetings, tasks, projects and future activity)
- Note-taking in meetings
- Planning and delivering presentations and lectures
