Mind Maps help dementia sufferers and
those who support them make the most of the
present moment.
ADVANCED MIND MAPPING FOR MEMORY
In 1991, Ray Keene and I co-founded the World Memory Championships, an
event that is separate from the World Mind Mapping Championships but also
event that is separate from the World Mind Mapping Championships but also
falls in the field of Mind Sports, and forms part of my life’s work in promoting
and improving global mental literacy. Today, competitors from all over the
world take part in the Championships; it’s a truly multicultural event. The
Championships consist of ten different disciplines in which the participants
memorize as much information as possible within a given period of time, such as
the order of a pack of cards or a long sequence of binary numbers.
World champion mnemonist Dominic O’Brien featured in the
Guinness Book of
Records
for his achievement on 1 May 2002, when he committed to memory a
random sequence of 2,808 playing cards after looking at each card only once. As
he explained earlier in this chapter (see
page 157
), Mind Maps are an essential
part of his toolkit.
We have seen how Mind Maps can be used to memorize information. They can
also be used as productive exercises in their own right with which to improve
your memory by giving your brain a healthy workout.
A Mind Map of Mind Mapping
This wonderful Mind Map relates to the processes of Mind Mapping itself.It was
created by Chinese Mind Mapper Liu Yan, and helped her win a well-deserved
gold medal in the 2016 World Mind Mapping Championships. Liu Yan has
placed a portrait of me as the central image, and has created branches relating to
key aspects of Mind Mapping such as its methodology, its applications, and the
means by which it is created through drawing, the use of 3D and the Laws of
Mind Mapping (see
Chapter 2
,
page 60
). The resulting Mind Map is imaginative,
witty, colourful and a delight to behold.It is full of humorous touches that make
memorizing it easy and fun.
Talk the Talk
This next exercise will enable you to experience the ways in which Mind
Mapping can help you to read faster, improve your understanding, take
useful notes and offer an overview of the material you are reading – as well
as memorize that information.
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