What are the advantages of mind mapping?

There are alot of advantages of mind mapping, such as:

The flexibility of Mind Maps to help us think divergently and convergently AND visualise our thinking means that they are, when used properly, an essential part of our intellectual armoury.

Mind Maps are an ideal tool for understanding inter-relationships between different aspects of a situation. By focusing on meaning rather than worrying about grammar and semantics, the Mind Map helps people to rapidly build up an enhanced understanding of any problem, challenge or situation.

Often combined with speed reading and advanced overview techniques, Mind Maps allow us to summarise information efficiently and in such a way as to make it usable and accessible.

The key is to think effectively at the beginning of a project or the preparation of a presentation. Suspending the process of structuring an output (project plan, presentation) allows maximum value to be gained from the divergent and associative thinking that Mind Maps support so well.

What IS Mind Mapping??

A mind map is a diagram used to represent words, ideas, tasks, or other items linked to and arranged around a central key word or idea. Mind maps are used to generate, visualize, structure, and classify ideas, and as an aid in study,, organization, problem solving, decision making, and writing.

The elements of a given mind map are arranged intuitively according to the importance of the concepts, and are classified into groupings, branches, or areas, with the goal of representing semantic or other connections between portions of information. Mind maps may also aid recall of existing memories.

CREATIVE THINKING

Diverge thinking...

Divergent thinking is a thought process or method used to generate creative ideas by expeloring many possible solutions.

Converge thinking..

Converge thinking is a term coined by joy paul Guilford as the opposite of divergent thinking.

(Convergent and divergent production are the two types of human response to a set problem that were identified by J.P. Guilford (1967))

“A CREATION IS SOMETHING ORIGINAL THAT HAS VALUE”

(Haggins,1995)

Why people are motivated to be creative ?

Nowadays when we are talking about creativity, it should be considered that the NEEDS are making creativity. More over there are some reasons which explain how needs make creativity, and do those deppend to person, or every body can be creative!. At first, need for novel, varied, and complex simulation make us for being creative. All of us are living in socities with different social needs, but we can see as clear as a day that we need novel. Another important point is need to communicate ideas and values, and at last but not least , need to solve problems will make us to be creative.

Some creative definitions:

"Creativity is the ability to illustrate what is outside the box from within the box."

"Creativity is defined as the tendency to generate or recognize ideas, alternatives, or possibilities that may be useful in solving problems, communicating with others, and entertaining ourselves and others."

"Henry Miller ( writer) -- The occurrence of a composition which is both new and valuable."

"John Haefele (CEO and entrepreneur) -- The ability to make new combinations of social worth."

"Newell, Simon, & Shaw (team of logic theorists) -- A special class of problem solving characterized by novelty."

"H. H. Fox (scientist) -- Any thinking process in which original patterns are formed and expressed."

"E. Paul Torrance (educator, academic, creativity investigator) --Fluency , flexibility, originality, and sometimes elaboration."

"Rollo May (writer, philosopher) - Creativity is the process of bringing something new into being..."

"Roger von Oech - Creative thinking involves imagining familiar things in a new light, digging below the surface to find previously undetected patterns, and finding connections among unrelated phenomena."

"Carnevale, Gainer, Meltzer - ... the ability to use different modes of thought to generate new and dynamic ideas and solutions"

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