1. Mind mapping is closely related to divergent thinking of the brain, and its main function is to improve people's memory and divergent thinking.
2. For students with poor abstract thinking ability, the unique "image memory" of mind map helps students to remember knowledge more easily.
3. Wide application range. A foreign blog has made a survey and summed up 10 fields commonly used in mind mapping: to-do list, preparing presentation, taking notes, solving problems, project planning, decision-making, knowledge management, project management, personal thinking and writing.
Disadvantages of mind mapping
1, mind map is a divergent and hierarchical display diagram, which is inconvenient to express and complicated in information content.
2. If manual drawing is used, the time cost is high (except computer software drawing).
3. For systematic thinking, the method of single mind map is too limited, and fishbone diagram, SWOT and Gantt chart should be integrated.
The origin of mind mapping
In 1960s, an Englishman, tony buzan, a sophomore, wanted to get a book about the brain and how to use it in the library to help him improve his study efficiency, but he didn't get it. Under such circumstances, he did not give up his exploration, taught himself books on psychology, information theory, perception theory, brain physiology and so on, and also widely read the notes of great thinkers. After a lot of study and research, he believes that if all the physical aspects and qualifications of the human brain cooperate with each other, people's work efficiency and production efficiency will be significantly improved. For example, if you paint some colors on important notes, the memory efficiency will be nearly doubled.
During this period, Tony Buzan tutored some mentally retarded children and boldly applied his research theory to teaching, but the results were particularly gratifying. This brand-new thinking theory can help a woman raise her IQ from a historical low to 160 in one month. Tony Buzan named this way of thinking mind map.
In the following years, Tony Buzan has been constantly improving the concepts of divergent thinking and mind mapping, going to the world and introducing the value of mind mapping to the government, schools and enterprises. From 65438 to 0995, he wrote and published the book Mind Mapping. Thanks to Bozan's research and active promotion, nearly 500 million people around the world can enjoy this achievement.
Development of mind mapping
In recent years, with the development and progress of society, work efficiency has become an important skill index. As an excellent efficiency tool, mind mapping has attracted much attention. Searching for the word "mind map" in Baidu index, the demand for mind map is increasing year by year, so it can be predicted that in the next few years, mind map will gradually become the mainstream tool and be accepted by the public.
In order to meet the needs of the rapid development of society, the drawing methods of mind map also present diversified forms. Early mind maps need to be drawn with pens and drawing paper; Because this method is extremely inefficient, more and more efficient drawing methods appear. For example, the popular computer mind map mainly uses computer tools to assist drawing. Its representative computer drawing tools include MindMaster, Baidu Brain Map, Edraw Max, etc.
The progress of science and technology will inevitably further promote the efficiency of mind mapping. With the development of speech recognition technology, mind map can be drawn by voice control, and you can operate freely by voice input directly without hand drawing or keyboard input. In addition, with the maturity of mobile Internet, many drawing software can be installed on mobile electronic products, which greatly facilitates users to draw, and it is possible to create and share mind maps anytime and anywhere.