Learn the concepts, tools, and, tactics that make mind mapping such a powerful tool to help you solve complex problems and learn new information quickly. 

Develop the basic and advanced skills needed to take any information and organize it in a way the helps you see patterns and identify opportunities, while also making new concepts easier to learn.

• Learn the connection between creativity and mind mapping
• Build maps to deconstruct problems and brainstorm solutions
• Use freely available, open-source software (Freemind) to build mind maps for reference or problem solving
• Improve the way you read and learn new information with mind maps

All Your Ideas, in One Place

You have a lot of great ideas and you've learned a lot of new things. Sometimes, the challenge is knowing too much! Many knowledge workers and students struggle to keep up with the information that they have learned or the ideas they generate. Mind mapping is an excellent tool from bringing order to the chaos, and using all the ideas you possess to their full potential. 

Content Overview

At the end of this course you will be able to create mind maps that help you solve complex problems and learn important concepts. 

I made this course for anyone who thinks or learns as part of their most important work. Mind mapping is a tool that helps people work with lots of ideas that might otherwise be too overwhelming, or easily lost. Building mind maps can also help you brainstorm much more quickly, and then turn your raw ideas into organized plans in minutes.

We'll learn about how this creativity brainstorming works, and how to use mind maps to channel it. I'll show you how to structure a map to make the most of the ideas that you already have --and how to generate new ones. 

After we have explored the basics of building mind maps, I'll show you how you can take that knowledge and apply it to solving challenging problems. Whether you are working on an issue in your personal life, or something in your work, building mind maps can provide you a means of finding a solution. 

To do all of this, I'll be showing you some basic and advanced features of Freemind, a great and open-source tool for mind mapping anyone can download. The skills you learn in this section will be transferrable to most other mind mapping tools.

Finally, we will shift from creation to consumption by looking at the ways mind mapping can help us learn better. I'll show you tools for speeding up your reading, and boosting the retention of what you learn by using the skills you have already mastered in mind maps.