What is mind map?

Mind map is a diagram used to represent words, ideas, tasks, or other items linked to and arranged radically around a central key word or idea.
Why mind map?
- a useful technique that improves the way you take notes, supports and enhances your creative problem solving.
- can quickly identify and understand the structure of a subject.- In a format that your mind finds easy to remember and quick to review.
- Summarizing information
- Consolidating information from different research sources
- Thinking through complex problem
- Presenting information in a format that shows the overall structure of your subject.

How to do mind map?
- Use just keywords or wherever possible images
- Start from the center of the page and work out.- Make the center a clear and strong visual image that depicts the general theme of the map
- Create sub-centers for sub-themes
- Put keywords on lines
- Use arrows, icons or other visual aids to show links between different elements
- Be creative. Creativity aids memory

This is the mind map we were suppose to make for our creative studies exercise.

I used mind map a lot in my works and it helped me unexpectedly because I never thought it would be useful which now I know how useful it is.

Below you can see a very good example of a logical mind map which is about Skills of Mind and it is very interesting if you read it.