Mindmaps

According to Michael Michalko, in his best-selling book Cracking Creativity, a Mind Map:

1. activates your whole brain
2. clears your mind of mental clutter
3. allows you to focus on the subject
4. helps demonstrate connections between isolated pieces of information
5. gives a clear picture of both the details and the big picture
6. allows you to group and regroup concepts, encouraging comparisons between them
7. requires you to concentrate on your subject, which helps get the information about it
8. transferred from your short-term memory to your long-term memory