Visualize Insight with Mind Maps
A mind map is a kind of a diagram that shows topics and how they are connected. Creating a mind map is a widely used creativity- and productivity-enhancing technique. Invented by British author Tony Buzan in The Mind Map Book: How to Use Radiant Thinking to Maximize Your Brain’s Untapped Potential [BB96], similar styles of diagrams have been around since at least the third century.[109]
A modern mind map is a sort of two-dimensional, organic, and holistic outline. The rules for making a mind map are loose, but they go something like this:
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Start with a largish piece of unlined paper.
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Write the subject title in the center of the page, and draw an enclosing circle around it.
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For the major subject subheadings, ...
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