Try Mind Mapping Mind Map

I have created a “Try Mind Mapping” mini-promotional pack that can be used to spark interest in Mind Mapping – this will make it easy for you to hand details to friends, family and colleagues.

The format is – you guessed it – a Mind Map!

However, the Mind Map is not only a jpeg image – it is also presented as an A4 poster, A5 Big Bookmarks with space to make notes, perhaps even for adding keywords if a Mind Map is going to be created of a book, standard Bookmarks, plus a postcard sized version. The pack is available in both Word and PDF.

The Big Bookmarks are really handy; I wonder why more Bookmarks aren’t made this size?

Please feel free to expand the pack if you wish by adding your own instructions and even business details and course details if you run courses. These items can be printed out and optionally laminated for longevity. Tip; most laminators can handle thin paper back to back should you wish to make it double sided.

If running a course, you may like to hand the Mind Map to participants – it is a good idea to give several copies to each person – they can then pass them to their friends, family and colleagues. If you are a personal Mind Map user, why not introduce a few other non-users to the format – everything they need to know to get them started is on the Mind Map.

Plus:
If you wish, you can also buy the Try Mind Mapping T-Shirt!  And an alternative design to help promote Mind Mapping: “Be Smart – Mind Map it!”

Visit the Mind Map Inspiration website to download the pack

Why I use Mind Maps

Our brain thinks in images

As you will discover from reading Tony Buzan Books, he explains that we think in pictures – our minds process in images. If you think of a chair or someone mentions the  word “chair”- your mind immediately pictures a chair; even in a certain style, condition, colour and size etc….. you might even start to recall a time when you fell through  a deckchair and an ice cream spilt all over your new shirt.

Lists are boring

A long list of text can send you (and your mind) to sleep.

Whilst huge detail can be useful and is often necessary, simplification aids memory and recall and helps improve learning. Pictures alone cannot always tell a story, so combining words and pictures is the perfect solution to making learning more enjoyable.

Often dozens of pages of words with no pictures can leave you wondering whether you are actually taking anything in at all. Anyone who has built a ready made piece of furniture and followed the instructions will know the importance of simple and easy to follow steps!

Putting up a tent is another example – if only they added numbers and colours to the poles; how much simpler it would be! (You could add your own)

As in the case of the chair above – your mind knew what a chair was instantly; it didn’t really need the mass of extra information…by the way, I forgot to mention mine is also a wobbly chair, light brown, approximately 95 years old and has a small spider living underneath the padded seat area, which is a light beige and burgundy check pattern (the padded seat, not the spider) and has a small tear to the left where a popper from an old pair of jeans caught it once and….zzzzzzz. Anyway – enough words.

Quick list coming up:

This is a pointless list – it just serves as an example so that I can demonstrate that your Mind prefers pictures because they are far more interesting…. here is the same “list” in picture form – notice how much easier it is for your brain to drink in the information:

So, after all that – and to cut a long story short; the reason I use Mind Maps in one word is that they are “fun”

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