Associated Mind Map

As discussed before, mind maps help creators to conceptualize ideas through sketching and association. The are like trees with a single root being capable of formulating thousands of branches of ideas, and on the inverse, numerous ideas converging to form one root or solution to a problem.

Mind maps are the brain child of Tony Buzan, a modern day psychology and creative thinker. He teaches creative minds to maximise their minds power by sketching out their ideas and liking ideas together to come up with ideologies.

According to [http://members.optusnet.com.au/~charles57/Creative/Mindmap/], "Mind Maps™, developed by Tony Buzan are an effective method of note-taking and useful for the generation of ideas by associations. To make a mind map, one starts in the center of the page with the main idea, and works outward in all directions, producing a growing and organized structure composed of key words and key images. "

Examples of mind maps are shown below:

To create a mind map, start from the center and spread your ideas outwards while expanding the topic to smaller more specialised topics.