I was fixated on this question for a long time while I was working at my first job, right after I graduated out of college. My job profile required me to learn banking terminologies, calculations and programming and I had no clue about any of those. I had to learn a lot of things very fast and implement them even faster. Our teachers have all taught us various subjects right from childhood, but no one teaches us how to learn learning or how to study studying. I kept on searching for tools and techniques that could help us understand things in a way which in more natural and came intuitionally. It was then I stumbled upon this technique called mind mapping which helps visualize, plan and communicate ideas in a way our brains are originally programmed.

To understand Mind Maps, we first need to have a glimpse of how our brain works or how it gets things done.

Think about the stuff that you effortlessly do now, but at some point in your life it seemed hard to do. Two simple examples: riding a bicycle, driving a car. Even an attempt to calculate the exact acceleration causing the entire car to gain the perfect speed and angle to overtake a nearby truck by just a couple of inches, would make you hate driving. It’s surprising how comfortably we perform such elegant and skilled tasks while simultaneously talking to someone or switching radio channels.

This magic is the amazing work of our subconscious mind. About 95 percent of all cognition occurs in the subconscious mind, yet we are unable to harness its power. Conscious does the programming and Subconscious perfectly executes the programs. Each part of the mind has a specific purpose.

When you learn how to program your subconscious, you will learn how to do, have and be anything you desire.

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That’s right; did you know that we are born with millions of neurons. These little guys don’t know what to do and are just waiting for a job, whose assignment our environment is responsible for. As we learn to respond to pleasant things like music, color, pattern, touch, association, etc. these neurons are ‘programmed’. We do not have a learning disability, we just have a learning deprival and Mind map is the ultimate tool that helps us to harness the true potential of our brains allowing us to use all our cortical skills to enhance our memory and creativity. A Mind Map is a highly effective way of getting information in and out of your brain — it is a creative and logical means of note-taking and note-making that literally “maps out” your ideas.

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Each bit of information entering your brain — every sensation, memory or thought (incorporating every word, number, code, food, fragrance, line, colour, image, beat, note, and texture) can be represented as a central sphere from which radiates tens, hundreds, thousands, millions of hooks. Your brain‘s thinking pattern may thus be seen as a gigantic, Branching Association Machine (BAM!) — a super bio-computer with lines of thoughts radiating from virtually infinite number of data nodes. This structure makes up the neuronal network that makes up the physical architecture of your brain.