🌱 Harnessing Creativity
Every product, company, movement, book and song started as an idea formed from chaos. Creativity is to our god-like gift to connect the dots and synthesize new forms. The purpose of learning is to fuel our creativity and become wiser to using it. This space explores capturing your muse, leveraging your powers of observation and effective learning techniques.
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.
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.
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.
Before flying home, a three-day detour in Los Angeles, became a pivotal moment for integrating my travel lessons into everyday life.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
This MMN experiment highlights the potential of mind maps and AI tools for structuring complex info and enhancing decision-making in novel fields.
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.
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.
Instead of reading many books every year, I prefer to extend my stay amongst writers whose genius is unquestionable to master their lessons.
Don't let life speed by in a blur. Note and map your experiences. Live a thousand years.
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.
Epiphanies wait for no one, so you better be ready to capture them. Notebook mind mapping is the solution.
There are common barriers to mind mapping if you’re a beginner. Below are some tips I distilled from MMN office hours.
Podcasts, audiobooks, and YouTube have a treasure trove of on-demand knowledge in our fast changing world. But what’s the point if you forget everything in just a few hours?
Jim Hayne’s incredible story gives us the roadmap to include others in our journey. Here’s how to incorporate the lessons into your relationships.
To the Dalai Lama, JOY is a state of being satisfied and content with a meaningful life, but it’s elusive because most people have external sources of joy.
When analyzing information or talking to people about fast moving current events, I ask myself if we’re having a Fog-level or Peak-level discussion.
I put away ALL my electronic devices in a literal lock box, and my motivation, focus, and creativity went through the roof.
Everyone has a unique story. By taking the time to listen to them, we just might be able to learn something and build a little empathy along the way.
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.