How to Expand Your Thinking With Mind Maps

When Happy’s Paul Gapper was thirty-eight, he decided he wanted to leave his job as a probation officer and become a freelance trainer. At the time, the BBC had published a series of books by Tony Buzan on mind mapping, speed reading and memory techniques.

Paul was intrigued by the idea that you could start from a central idea and, on a single sheet of paper, expand your thinking around it.

In this blog, Paul talks about how mind maps have helped with the development of his career, as well as how to develop your own effective mind maps.

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