Following the Laws frees you up to develop your own unique “fingerprint”, or
rather “eyeprint”, style while staying true to the essential spirit of Mind
Mapping. To get to know and truly absorb the Laws of Mind Mapping, keep a
copy of them handy (perhaps in the form of a Mind Map) and consult them
regularly whenever you do any Mind Mapping. Within a short time they will
have become second nature to you and act like the DNA of your Mind Map
genes!
Take your Mind Mapping journey step by step: set your goals for your first Mind
Map; then your first two Mind Maps; then your first five Mind Maps; your first
ten Mind Maps; your first 25 Mind Maps; your first 50 Mind Maps … right until
you reach your first 100 Mind Maps (your century!). By the time you have
reached 100 Mind Maps, if you have been consulting the Laws, you will have
attained a highly skilled level of Mind Mapping.
Mind Maps can sometimes become complex as they spread across the page. The
Laws are designed to help improve their clarity in every respect and thereby
strengthen their impact on your brain, as well as on the brains of other people.
To get a better understanding of why this is so, let’s examine the key elements in
a little more detail, as well as some other considerations that relate to them.
How the Laws Shape a Mind Map
The easiest way to explore the effects and usefulness of the Laws is to put them
into practice by creating a Mind Map. First, make sure you have completely
grasped the basics of Mind Mapping by memorizing the seven steps set out in
Chapter 1
(see
page 28
). Then you will be ready to apply the Laws to a Mind
Map about a topic of your own choice. Why not trying creating one now, as you
read the words on the following pages?
In
Chapter 1
, I used the example of Shakespeare to illustrate each of the steps as
we went through them together. For this exercise, I would now like you to take a
moment to reflect on the problem or subject you would like to Mind Map. (If
you need inspiration, turn to the “Make Your Thoughts Visible” exercise on
page 73
.)
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