Memory
Mind Mapping Benefits: Research by Tony Buzan shows mind mapping improves memory recall by 32% compared to traditional note-taking methods.
Once our thoughts are outside our head, we can examine them, play with them, and make them better. It’s like a shortcut to realizing the full potential of the thoughts flowing through our minds.
Tiago Forte • Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential
Visual Learning in Education: According to research published in the Journal of Educational Psychology, students working with visual representations demonstrate 40% better learning outcomes.
What we know about visual thinking and learning by Lynn Marentette
Key points:
Visual information is processed more quickly than text
Students write better after using visual thinking strategies
Visual thinking helps learn about complex systems
Visual diagrams and concept maps enhance problem-solving and group work
Key points:
Visual information is processed more quickly than text
Students write better after using visual thinking strategies
Visual thinking helps learn about complex systems
Visual diagrams and concept maps enhance problem-solving and group work
Memory and imagination are closely linked. One reconstructs based on the gist; the other builds on whatever desire or dread is fuelling your image of the future. Both are essentially creative activities; where they differ is not in form but in their source of inspiration.
Vincent Deary • How We Are
Finding patterns and structure in information is how our brains extract meaning from the world, and putting words to music and rhyme are a way of adding extra levels of pattern and structure to language.