{"id":49395,"date":"2021-09-15T15:17:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-15T19:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=49395"},"modified":"2021-09-27T15:24:19","modified_gmt":"2021-09-27T19:24:19","slug":"life-mind-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/life-mind-map\/","title":{"rendered":"Life Mind Mapping: How to Get Unstuck in Life"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>What is life mind mapping? How can it help you remove blocks from your life?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A mind map is a technique to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/generate-new-ideas\/\">generate new ideas<\/a>. If you <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/stuck-in-life\/\">feel stuck<\/a>, you can use this method to explore options for your future, whether at home or at work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more to learn how to create a life mind map to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/how-to-get-unstuck\/\">get unstuck<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Generating Ideas for Your Life<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>You can remove blocks from your life by combining your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/direction-in-life\/\">Wayfinding Journal<\/a> with the technique of life mind mapping to envision multiple options.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Defective belief:<\/strong> I\u2019m blocked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Corrected belief:<\/strong> I can always generate new ideas, so I\u2019m never blocked.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Defective belief: <\/strong>I have to come up with the single <em>right<\/em> idea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Corrected belief: <\/strong>I need multiple ideas so that I can explore multiple options for my life and future.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>We all get stuck or blocked sometimes in life. We want to make a change, but we can\u2019t figure out what to do, let alone how to do it. For example, you may feel stuck in the wrong job and blocked in your attempts to find new work. Maybe you feel like you picked the wrong college major, and now you\u2019re too far down the road to change. What you need in such a situation is <em>ideation<\/em>: the skill and act of generating ideas. Approaching your blocks with a design mindset can generate more ideas than you ever thought possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Two Principles of Life Design<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>To be an effective life designer, follow two principles:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>When you have many good ideas to choose from, you choose better.<\/li><li>You should never choose the first possible solution to your problem.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>Remember what you learned in this book\u2019s introduction: There is no single best plan for your life. A successful, happy, productive \u201cyou\u201d could take many possible forms. Moreover, there are different paths to each of those lives. So this adds up to a multitude of possibilities. And that\u2019s where design thinking excels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Designers thrive on ideas. They think broadly, even wildly, and they come up with as many ideas as they can. They achieve <em>quality<\/em> in ideation by vastly expanding the <em>quantity<\/em> of their ideation. Put differently, <strong>they get more good ideas simply by training themselves to <\/strong><strong><em>have more ideas<\/em><\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They also train themselves not to be fooled, when they\u2019re working on a problem, by the first ideas that suggest themselves. These first ideas can often seem seductively persuasive, but you should always remember not to fall in love with them. The really creative solutions are almost always the later ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Enhanced Ideation<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>We\u2019re all born with a creative bent. You can see it in the unself-conscious playing of children, who sing, draw, and dance with abandon. They don\u2019t care if they \u201clook foolish\u201d or \u201cdo it wrong.\u201d Self-consciousness comes later when you realize you\u2019re being criticized or held to external standards. This kills creativity. But it\u2019s still there inside you, and you can access it through simple tools and techniques such as life mind mapping and reframing entrenched problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Life <strong>Mind Mapping<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Life mind mapping is a way that you can ideate on your own, without a team, and it can help you get unblocked. It works by free associating with words and ideas and generating a visual map of their relationships (a mind map is typically the \u201cbubble mind map\u201d of connected circles and words). Because it\u2019s visual, it gets past your possible inner \u201ccensor\u201d based on verbal logic.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The three steps in mind-mapping are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Choose your topic.<\/strong> Pick a current problem or goal, something that\u2019s bothering you or dominating your mind or emotions. Write it in the center of a sheet of paper.<\/li><li><strong>Make your map.<\/strong> Write five or six words in a ring around the central topic word, generating them through free association. What does the central topic make you think of? Connect these words to the central topic with lines. Then create yet another \u201clayer\u201d by doing the same free association with each of the second-level words. If you want, you can add another layer after this. Let the exercise uncover words and ideas you didn\u2019t even know were lurking in your subconscious.<\/li><li><strong>Draw connections and generate concepts.<\/strong> From the outermost layer of your map, circle four or five items that seem the most intuitively interesting to you. Start playing with these and \u201cmashing them up\u201d to generate solutions to your problem. Reject no ideas out of hand. Be playful with this.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Using Life Mind Mapping With Your Wayfinding Journal<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>Use your Wayfinding Journal to give you the topics for your life mind maps. From your journal, pick something that you found intensely involving, and draw a mind map with it at the center. Do the same for something that energized you, and also for something that generated the experience of flow. For one of these maps, pick three items from the outer ring (making sure they\u2019re ones that intuitively excite you), and use them to make a potential <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/job-role-vs-job-description\/\">job description<\/a> that would help other people and that you\u2019d find enjoyable and interesting. Now draw a sketch of this job. Do the same with your other two life mind maps. Make sure you come up with three completely separate job descriptions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It doesn\u2019t matter if any of these \u201csolutions\u201d sound realistically doable. <strong>The point is to unfreeze your thoughts and get your ideas flowing<\/strong>. When you learn to creatively combine ideas without stifling any of them, you have adopted the mindset of a designer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is life mind mapping? How can it help you remove blocks from your life? A mind map is a technique to generate new ideas. 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