The value of mind mapping - by one of the world's leading creativity experts

Mind mapping is a powerful tool that can supercharge your thinking and brainstorming.

But don't take my word for it.

Consider what one of the greatest living creativity experts has to say about it.

Michael Gelb has authored multiple books and courses on creative living and brainstorming, including one of my favorites: How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci. I recently discovered that his book Thinking for a Change contains an entire chapter on mind mapping and why it's so effective as a brain-boosting tool.

Here are 9 of my favorite quotes from it:

"Mind mapping trains you to manifest your thoughts in a way that makes it easier to see the whole picture and the details, to integrate logic and imagination."

"Outlining and other traditional note-making systems exclude your brain’s capacity for color, dimension, synthesis, rhythm, and image."

"Mind mapping frees you from the tyranny of premature organization. Premature organization stifles generation."

"Mind mapping liberates your conceptual powers by balancing generation and organization, convergence and divergence, while encouraging the full range of mental expression."

"Mind mapping integrates the left-brained, convergent aspects of our mind’s functioning: logic, language, mathematical reasoning, attention to detail, sequence, ordering, and analysis, with the more right-brained divergent elements: dimensionality, rhythm, color, picture, symbols, imagination, and synthesis. Mind mapping “rescues” these right-brain elements, previously relegated to the realm of doodling and daydreaming, making them a productive part of our thinking and problem solving."

"Mind mapping lets you generate your ideas faster and more freely and then organize them with a greater range of organizational tools (colors, numbers, codes)."

"Mind mapping gives you easier access to your brain’s potential. It allows you to start quickly and generate more ideas in less time. Its free-ranging format—adding words to one branch one moment, then skipping over to another branch the next—increases your chances of generating new ideas."

"Mind mapping helps you see connections among things that may have seemed completely separate. It gives you a clear view of both the details and the big picture of your subject, thereby encouraging synvergent thinking."

"Mind mapping is also useful in liberating us from the preconceived ideas and prejudices that limit the freedom of our thinking and problem solving."

Read my review of Michael Gelb's seminal course, How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci:

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