Mind Mapping - Still Can't Get It!

      
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		            		Moonesh Shibdoyal
Student (MBA), Singapore
			            
Mind Mapping - Still Can't Get It!

	          		I've read books, attended Tony Buzan's course, but still cant seem to get it. What could I be doing wrong? I know mind mapping can be very helpful, it just hasn't worked for me... (yet). Please advise.
				      
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						            	Henrik Burton
Management Consultant, Sweden
												
				                Learning to Use Mindmapping

													Would you like to elaborate a bit around your expectations and what it is you feel you can't get? /henrik.
				                
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						            	Moonesh Shibdoyal
Student (MBA), Singapore
												
				                Learning to Use Mindmapping

													Hi Henrik, I find it difficult to expand from the main idea. For example, if I start with the word "book", there are so many possible associations for book that I feel like am swimming in a ocean, without the right tool to navigate in the right direction. It's just too vast.

As for the association (represented by the arrows), do we have to write the association type? I often find it hard to find the appropriate action word to describe the mind map, maybe this is not an issue with the mind mapping itself, but what can I do to improve this shortcoming?
				                
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						            	Henrik Burton
Management Consultant, Sweden
												
				                Learning to Use Mindmapping

													Hi! Yes, one method could be to first write all the associations down and as a second step organize ... Sign up
				              
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						            	Wulf-Dieter Krueger
Teacher, Thailand
												
				                Mindmapping - Problem Solving

													It seems to me that, particularly in Asia, Mind Mapping (MM) is often done for MM' sake and not as a... Sign up
				              
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						            	Tebboub Abdelamelk
Professor, Algeria
												
				                Re: MM I Still Can't Get It

													Hi Shibdoyal, be sure that there is nothing wrong with you, but remember a MM is a visual representa... Sign up
				              
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						            	Wulf-Dieter Krueger
Teacher, Thailand
												
				                Difficulties with Applying Mind Mapping

													@Tebboub Abdelamelk : Indeed MM is primarly a visual (seeing) tool, but it can for be used for audio... Sign up
				              
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						            	smith, UK
												
				                Mind Mapping: I Also Still Can't Get It!

													I'm glad to hear someone else finds the same problems, I have done many mind maps which I think take... Sign up
				              
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						            	VIAIRON
Project Manager, France
												
				                Mind Mapping Does not Work Well for Sensors (MBTI)

													Hello, Mind Mapping is just not compliant with "type S" people (Editor: Sensors - practical, detail-... Sign up
				              
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						            	Maurice Hogarth
Consultant, United Kingdom
												
				                Opening your Mind to Mind Mapping

													@Moonesh Shibdoyal: When I first came across Mind Mapping (then called "Brain Patterns"), I thought ... Sign up
				              
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