Can mind mapping make you part of the "cognitive elite?"

There's a growing body of research and opinion pieces that suggest that AI is slowly eroding our ability to do critical thinking.

In a rush to be more productive and efficient, many organizations and individuals are offloading reading, thinking and decision-making to AI tools. We want everything summarized.

We don't have time to do the heavy lifting of gathering, organizing, distilling and sharing our interpretation of our research, so we let the AI tools do it for us.

The result is bland and unengaging. When we have access to the same ginormous store of information and knowledge as everyone else, then our work starts to sound like everyone else.

In order to differentiate your work and stand out, you need to bring what's uniquely YOU to your work - your experiences, opinions and mindset.

How can mind mapping enable you to be a critical thinker in the age of rampant AI? It can help you make your thinking tangible, capture information about your environment, trends and the forces affecting you and can help you make better informed decisions about what to do next.

Mind mapping can empower you to take a building block approach to crafting understanding and consensus as well as formulating future plans.

AI can be used to amplify and extend your thinking, not replace it.

Mind mapping tools can help you with:

• Research

• Problem definition

• Decision making

• Sense making

• Brainstorming

• Simple project management

• Scenario planning

By using this type of visual thinking tool, your thinking will be miles ahead of the majority of people who are using AI as a crutch - to think FOR them.