Epiphany
[noun] The ultimate outcome of Epiphany Mapping. The moment you suddenly gain clarity - when all the dots connect.
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Who Are Your Genius Advisors?
We are better served following a few well chosen advisors than ingesting the thoughts of many teachers. Here’s a Mind Map and 3 questions to identify them and apply their big ideas to upgrade your life.
Embracing Our Inner Darkness
Acknowledging and accepting our dark sides not only eases our own inner civil war, but allows us to harness this tension for entrepreneurial and creative endeavors.
The Year I Want to Forget (but learned the most from)
I turned 36-years-old this week. For my birthday, I wanted to reflect through a Mind Map on the hardest year of my life to make sure I never forget the most important lessons.
Bringing Travel Lessons Home
Before flying home, a three-day detour in Los Angeles, became a pivotal moment for integrating my travel lessons into everyday life.
A World Without Heroes
My final journal entry in Taiwan written from the air just like my first one. I reflect on one of the trip’s most important lessons: Ambition versus Simplicity.
The Frontier of Personal Growth
Our growth comes from navigating a path between 'faith' and 'doubt'. So how do we do that? I use a combination of questions, affirmations, and Mind Mapping to create a Personal Values System.
Cinematic Living
The art of cinematic living is knowing where to place your attention and focus to appreciate the details around you or to zoom out to gain an aerial perspective on life.
Admirable Characters
Who do you want to be? What kind of people do you want to attract into your life? If you’re not clear on the kind of characteristics you’re looking for, then it’s easy to get stuck with people you don’t want around.
Buried, but Not Lost
I believe in living by questions especially for the most personal ones that we may not even know where to begin searching for the answers. I share mine going into my sabbatical to Taiwan in this entry.
These 4 Weeks Changed Me
Travel IS learning, if it’s done right. Instead of souvenirs and selfies, we can come home with important lessons and connections. Here’s how my solo backpacking trip to Taiwan changed me.
The Art of Selective Learning: 3 Step System to Beat Information Overload
It's never been about consuming more content, but deeply consuming the right content. How do you know what’s “right” and turn it into working knowledge? This 3-level learning system has does exactly that.
Life Curation Questions
Questions help prioritize our time, so that we’re not swimming in information overwhelm. Here’s how to make and use a set of questions to guide your learning and career and personal growth.
ShengGPT: The Future of AI Mind Mapping
What if we could “productize ourselves” as AI assistants trained in our unique world lens and methods of problem solving. Here’s a thought experiment to see how life would be if you had a personal Mind Mapper at your finger tips.
ChatGPT + Mind Maps
This MMN experiment highlights the potential of mind maps and AI tools for structuring complex info and enhancing decision-making in novel fields.
Brew Your Own Mental Models
Critical thinking is increasingly needed to make good decisions in a chaotic world. I’ll share my 3-step method of turning life experiences into new frameworks that help us cut through all the noise.
MMN Event - External Brain: The Joy of Connected Thinking
In this MMN event, Lewis Holland shares the benefits of using External Brain systems (EB) to improve our ability to store, synthesize and access the overwhelming amount of information we’re exposed to.
My Top 3 Books of 2022
Instead of reading many books every year, I prefer to extend my stay amongst writers whose genius is unquestionable to master their lessons.
Live 1,000 Years
Don't let life speed by in a blur. Note and map your experiences. Live a thousand years.
The Power of Journaling
I reveal my relationship with writing, why it differs from mind mapping, and how I use my notebook to appreciate each life phase and overcome writer’s block.
Mind Map Anywhere
Epiphanies wait for no one, so you better be ready to capture them. Notebook mind mapping is the solution.