


MAKE MISTAKES! It’s perfectly acceptable to redo a particular map/subject, maybe in a completely different way than it was initially done. I didn’t want to mess up, or have to remake it again later on. One difficulty I had when first starting off was my reluctance to tackle important material. He created the 7 steps (“ 7 laws”) of Mind Maps, which can be found here. He researched study-skills, history, and psychology to put together the best conglomeration of tactics to make a simple and effective memory device.

Even he will state that “created” is a strong term. Mind maps were created by memory champion Tony Buzan. However, Mind Maps for Medical Finals appears to have the proper tactics down. In fact, Mind Maps for Medical Students and Mind Maps in Pathology make this fatal error. Concept maps are the closest stylistically, but lack many of the memory-inducing color schemes, imagery, and/or textual relationships of topics. Mostly because, as I once did, people mistake other forms of graphic note-taking to be mind maps. Mind maps are probably one of the most confused note-taking topic out there.
