How To Mind Map Computer Software Web Tips Guide
How to Mind Map When Using The Non-Linear Right Brain
By Dirk C Wallace
Tony Buzan has been one of the main activists in getting the
basics of how to mind map out into the public sphere.
An educational consultant and prolific author on many different
topics relating to memory and the mind, he has taken earlier ideas
on how to make a cognitive map of all the ideas surrounding a
central topic, and crystallized them into his own modern approach.
Explaining Ideas In Published Books
These ideas may first have been conceived by philosophers a few
centuries ago, but Buzan took them out of the philosophy books
and put them into his own more popular books, explaining them
in a way that people today can understand.
Buzan stands on the shoulders of several others who developed
earlier precursors of mind map methods. Allan M. Collins and M.
Ross Quillian in particular completed research on "semantic
networks," exploring how learning, creativity and graphical
thinking were related.
Accessible To The General Public
But Buzan also credits the semantic theories of Alfred Korzybski
as his inspiration for understanding how to create a mind map.
These theories were given life by science fiction novelists such
as Robert Heinlein and A.E. van Vogt, but it was Buzan who put
them into popular form and made them accessible to the general
public.
The Tony Buzan mind mapping technique involves taking a central
word and arranging all the concepts or ideas related to that word
in ways that radiate out from it. He claims that readers don’t
naturally absorb a page of text by scanning it left-to-right,
as all English books are currently written.
Using The Non-Linear Right Brain
Rather, says Buzan, they tend to scan the page in a non-linear
way. So when he teaches how to mind map, he teaches people to
use their non-linear right brain to visualize related concepts
on a page, as spatial ideas, and then to group them together with
similar colors or by relocating them to the same place on the
page.
This, according to Buzan, reveals relationships and themes that
the person might not initially have thought of, and allow them
to review their options.
In 2006, Buzan released a mindmapping software program called
"iMindMap, and he has published many books on memory, speed
reading, and of course on creating maps of the mind itself.
Exploring All Aspects Of The Mind
He also has a website called "Buzan World," where he
promotes his ideas. Over the years he has founded many organizations
such as the Brain Foundation, the Brain Trust Charity, the World
Memory Championships, and the World Championships of the Brain.
But although he is well known for exploring all aspects of the
mind, he is probably best known for his promotion and education
on all aspects of how to mind map.
About the Author:
Dirk C Wallace has written a number of articles on Business Software, Computers and Internet Security including
Mind Mapping Software,
Business Tax Software,
Customer Relationship Management CRM,
Customer Support,
CRM Software,
Turbo Tax Software,
Adware Spyware Removal Program
Computer Security Handbook,
Computer Instruction.
Keep a lookout for more of his articles on this website.
Did You Know This About Mind Mapping?
Have you ever had a case of writer’s block? If you have then
you know how frustrating it can be. You try and try to find the
words or solution to a problem and it just does not come to you.
There is a way to kick start your brain’s power. It is a process
calling mind mapping. It is not mapping your mind. It is really
like a session in free writing or brainstorming. You let the ideas
just come to you and you write them down or use a software program.
It has been proven to work.
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