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5 Characteristics of Mind Mapping

Updated on July 22, 2010

Mind Mapping You Should Know

A man without a brain is nothing. You can't even lift an arm without your brain's order. Your brain controls every move; it contains every thought that passes your mind, every emotion you feel. It controls all of your life; it is really messed up there so your brain needs a way to organize this mess. The way this is done is called mind mapping; organizing your brain really elevates its efficiency and its capability to work right.

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5 Characteristics of Mind Mapping You Should Know

A man without a brain is nothing. You can't even lift an arm without your brain's order. Your brain controls every move; it contains every thought that passes your mind, every emotion you feel. It controls all of your life; it is really messed up there so your brain needs a way to organize this mess. The way this is done is called mind mapping; organizing your brain really elevates its efficiency and its capability to work right.

Mind mapping lets you control the information coming into and out of your brain. Of course it is explicable from its name. It is a way to convert your random ideas to mapped and organized maps. These maps apart from being a system that contain several maps which resemble the other in some of the basic concepts have an organizational structure.

The mind mapping system organizes information coming into the brain like facts and data and converts it into thoughts that can be easily recalled when needed. Its value becomes clear when you ask your brain to do something but it does not find ideas to do it.

You can imagine it like this, suppose you want to go to your favorite destination which represents the main idea while the primary road which leads to your favorite destination represents the major thought for the idea. In the same way the secondary roads like shortcuts represent the minor thoughts for this idea. Some of the images should denote highly important ideas and notes. This task can become even more ideas if you use mind map software for the purpose.

The leading aspect for mind mapping is that it is the out front approach of your thinking which is figured in a graphical representation that manages to organize your ideas to help you use your mind at its best all the time.

5 Things You Need To Know About Mind Maps

1. Main position is given to the central idea.

2. The primary themes flow from the central image as 'branches'.

3. The branches are symbolic of the main ideas that connect to the central idea.

4. The secondary ideas and facts are shown as 'twigs' of the major related branch.

5. All the branches are linked together is a proper organized structure.

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