Mind Mapping · Part 1

The GRIND framework for a great mind map (plus a sixth step, Emphasized). The point isn't the map — it's the thinking the process forces.

Key ideas

▸You can't copy-paste knowledge between brains. The map is a representation; the process is what builds the knowledge.
▸Two of the six steps people skip cause most failures: Interconnected (avoids the “islands” pattern) and Emphasized (builds the backbone).
▸Each step influences the others — the back-and-forth restructuring is the recursive nature of deep learning.
▸Use AI correctly: harmful if it does your organising or judging for you; fine if it just collects/summarises or replaces a Google search.

Click the letters to layer the map up, one step at a time.

Build maps following GRIND in order; learn roughly one step per week.
Draw lines/arrows/spatial layout and abstract images (“memory landmarks”) instead of writing sentences.
Add directional arrows for flow; emphasise the most important groups/relationships to form a backbone.

“the perfect mind map is less about the mind map and more about the process you use to create it”

“the mind map itself is not the knowledge”