If you want to represent words, ideas, sentences, tasks, etc, according and linked to a central idea, you have to use a type of diagrams called Mind Maps. A Mind Map is developped starting from a central idea in order to lead later to ideas and concepts that could help us to understand a subject or several subjects related.

The idea behind that kind of diagrams is to re-sort the data and reflect it in a natural way, just like the humans and the nature are organized, and most importantly, to combine the data in the same way as it is organized in our minds

When you are reading a book for example you can take some notes using this technique in order to understand what the author of the book is saying and more importantly to put it in your own words to express up in a way that make sense to you. It’s a way to synthesize it in order we can understand it and later we can go back for it to review.

We can do it with the simple adition of colours or drawings in our notes, and then we will be capable of improving our possibilities of memorizing these notes in 100%, and perhaps even more importantly, made us begin to enjoy what we are doing, instead of doing something that finally become boring.

Mind Mapping is a very powerful tool thinking because they enable us to sketch out the main ideas and to see quickly and clear how they related to each other. They provided us with an exceptionally useful intermediate stage between the thinking process and actually committing words to paper.

It’s very important bridging the gap between thinking and writing. Sometimes is very difficult to put all the details together in order to write about it.

Mind Mapping give us a tremendous competitive advantage. It enable us to assemble and refine ideas without going through the time consuming process of drafting and re-drafting.

Image: Simple mind map about Operations Manager Functions.