Dream Vision
This mind map draws inspiration from an outstanding book called “Innovate like Edison” by Michael J. Gelb and Sarah Miller Caldicott. Michael J. Gelb is the author of “How to Think like Leonardo da Vinci” and many other books. You can follow him on Twitter @MichaelJGelb and visit his website at http://michaelgelb.com/ Sarah Miller Caldicott is the great-grandniece of Thomas Edison. Visit her website at http://www.powerpatterns.com/
I’ve called this mind map Dream Vision and it covers hints and tips, inspired by the book, for getting your message across to an audience, be it a presentation, sales, marketing, ideation or innovation and more. How might you excite and incite? Dream Vision offers suggestions for catching the eye and interest plus areas to consider in order to create influence and impact. “Innovate like Edison” is a fascinating read and this mind map covers only a few of the many comprehensive ideas within the book – I highly recommend reading it.
In the Dream Vision mind map I have used an acronym of the word “Dream” to explore 5 key areas for inspiring interest and action.
“D” stands for “Desire” – Finding ways to tap into human qualities and experiences; what people can relate to. It suggests focussing on needs by identifying what people are looking for and how and why they need what you have to offer.
“R” stands for “Reason” – Exploring ways you can interest the mind, encourage curiosity and also excite the heart by connecting to and evoking feelings.
“E” stands for “Emotions” – Connecting feelings to knowledge, raising the memorability factor by tapping personal meanings and associations and encouraging the desire or reason to act or do.
“A” stands for “Action” – Converting the needs, feelings and desires to an outcome, solution or answer; moving from interest to feeling compelled to act or do.
“M” stands for “Memorable” – Creating an exceptional experience, an unforgettable hook or message; unique, outstanding, original, creative and extraordinary. Often simple yet unusual enough to create impact and guarantee recall.
The acronym again:
D – Desire
R – Reason
E – Emotions
A – Action
M – Memorable
A quote from the book – “Your ability to influence others in a memorable way, as Edison did, will dramatically improve your prospects for success in every endeavour”
A quote from Thomas Edison – “To have a great idea, have lots of them”
A quote from me – “Read the book “Innovate like Edison” 
Also of interest, check out my own E-Book for encouraging ideation called “Idea Creation” – this illustrated E-Book contains over 20 mind maps.
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Look again
Truth and illusion; both thought-based; both require identification with thought. Illusion is a script, a story; truth has no “story” it just “is”.
A tree is a tree – that’s truth. If I tell you all about a tree and about everyone who comes and goes and sees the tree, that is a story – or stories about the tree. The tree is only an example; it might be a rock or a flower or anything. The name of the tree is a label; another story – the tree is a tree whatever it may have been labelled by our ancestors. Even the word “tree” someone had to label. The labels come and the mind thinks it “knows” – knows what the tree is, knows all about it and so the enquiry is over.
Beneath the labels of names and stories the tree is a tree and you are you. Labels come and go – one day the tree might be a brown tree, another day it might be a green tree – still a tree. One day you might be a painter or an electrician or a doctor or a vet, yet you still remain you beneath the titles. The you beneath the labels.
Once the mind has a label for something, it rarely looks any further because it thinks it knows. There is so much more to life than a label. Before a label curiosity and intrigue, after the label potential ignorance. The danger of a label is we say that is a daisy and look away and then forget to actually see the daisy. To embrace the daisy and simply look without thought then you see the daisy for real; possibly even for the first time.
To sit with a tree and simply observe, that is a true connection with nature. To meet another person or an animal without a barrage of labels that is a real connection; beneath the labels, beneath the analysis, beneath the stories of who or what the person “is”, or what the animal “is”.
So today, what might you meet with for the first time however many occasions you have seen it before?
Today, who might you connect with and really truly meet, possibly for the first time?
The before and after of what you know; the before and after of what you “think” you know.
Look again and perhaps for the first time ever you may see
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