Mapping Your Mind

First off, let me say I took the advice of Dien and several others and visted Julie's web site, 5passions.com. If you haven't been, it's well worth the visit. I spent some time there, requested the free e-book, read some articles, followed some links, etc. It's worth your time. Nice site Julie.

While I was there, I followed Julie's suggestion and looked at some of the mind mapping sites she recommends. Mind mapping is not totally foreign to me. I'm also familiar with mind storming and brainstorming as I'm sure are many of you. Anyway, I went to the sites and looked at the examples. Even printed some of them. It looks like a great concept except for one small thing. Everything I saw told you how to create to a mind map but they left out one tiny detail. They don't tell you how to *use* it once you've got it! Once you've created this thing of beauty, what do you *do* with it? Maybe I'm too left-brained, (Yes Gordon. I've been called worse. *g*), but for the life of me, I could not figure out what to do with the thing once I created it. I mean it has all these circles, arrows, whatever on it, but how do I draw conclusions from it, make decisions from it, whatever? Maybe it's just me but I seem to be missing something fundamental here.

Rick Smith, "The Net Guerrilla"