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How to use mindmapping to be more creative

Use Mind Maps to Supercharge your Creativity. The mind map gives you five practical and actionable ways you can use the creative skill of mind mapping to stimulate your creative mind and achieve your goals. Our guide also dives into the importance of continuous learning and the nurturing of a creative mindset, complete with real-world examples, exercises, and success stories. Perfect for artists, writers, innovators, and anyone looking to infuse more creativity into their personal and professional life.

Edited at 2022-05-04 10:04:31

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How to use mindmapping to be more creative

celia@creativitywakeup.com

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How to use mind mapping to be more creative

- capturing

- Preserves novel ideas as they occur, without first judging or editing them.

- Capture ideas

- "Everyone is given little signals in life, little threads you can pull on. If you do, you are continuously exploring and discovering life. If you walk past them, then you were just eating the same porridge every day."

Murray Gelberg

- How?

- 1. Be deliberate - plan how you will capture the "fish"

- Carry a notebook

- "Many people think writing notes is below them but everyone should be doing it as it can greatly improve what you do.”

Richard Branson

- Have an ideas book next to your bed side

- James Cameron's Avatar

- Use a mind mapping app on your phone

- 2. Combine or extend the ideas using a mind map

- Mind maps are great for capturing or extending notes about creative ideas

- Mind map all the ways you can think that you can capture ideas . 90 seconds.

- challenging

- Seeks challenges and manages failure constructively.

- Seneca

- We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

- Fear Setting by Tim Ferriss

- 1. What if I...?

- Define

- what's the worst that could happen if you take action. be specific.

- Prevent

- how could you reduce the likelihood of these bad things happening?

- Repair

- how could you get back on track if the worst happens?

- 2. What might be the benefits of an attempt or partial success?

- 3. What is the cost of inaction (emotional, physical, financial etc.)?

- 6 months

- 1 year

- 3 years

- Mind maps help us to solve complex problems

- Try fear setting now. Start with step 1. What if I?

- Try Fear Setting

- broadening

- Deliberately acquires knowledge and skills well outside one’s current areas of expertise.

- Expand your environment

- Your brain wants to connect the dots, but you must first put the dots in there!

Nikki Bush

- Ann Morgan

- Writer Ann Morgan set herself a challenge – to read a book from every country in the world in one year.

- Learning

- forgetting curve

- think about all the books you've read - and how much you remember of them

- Mind map a book

- surrounding

- Surrounds oneself with diverse and novel physical and social stimuli.

- Stock the pond

- As a creator (of life, of business, of art, of family), we need to learn to be self-nourishing. We stock the pond by filling ourselves with images, sounds, experiences and explorations that intrigue and inspire us.

- The Artist's Date

- Feed your curiosity

- Rules

- No children, friends, family members allowed.

- No working allowed.

- There should not have an outcome (e.g. whilst I am here, I must buy a gift for someone.)

- Make it regular! One hour weekly is a good guideline.

- Mind mapping elegantly facilitates brainstorming of ideas

- What would you do on an Artist's Date? Mind map everything you can think of. 90 seconds.

- delighting

- a cause or source of great pleasure

- Delight

- And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.

John Steinbeck

- Think back to what delighted youas a child. memory lane. put yourself in the mindset of a child - pictures only - all the things that delighted you as a child - try and make it as child-like as possible.

- context

- Generativity Theory

- Our creative potential is universal and perhaps limitless.

- Four essential competencies to express our creativity: capturing, challenging, broadening, and surrounding

- what you can get out of this 60 mins

- Our objectives

- 1. give you FIVE practical ways you can develop your creativity using mind mapping

- 2. inspire you commit to ongoing deliberate effort to grow your creative intelligence

- the impact for you

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- Write down: what actions/ habits do you already have that develop your creativity...

- hello

- who we are

- Nina

- Nina Pearse

- learning facilitator, agile people consultant, creativity coach

- live in Johannesburg, mum of two girls

- passionate about economic and social transformation using creativity

- Celia

- Celia Falkenberg

- architect, fine artist, learning designer, entrepreneur

- live in Cape Town, mum of two girls

- believe that most of the problems our world faces today can be solved using our creative intelligence

- what we do

- we equip leaders and teams to think more creatively and to innovate

- ..

- create online courses for people who want to break out of being stuck, bring change into their communities and/ or raise more creative children

- Creative intelligence courses

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