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Practice Your Mind-Mapping Skills

Mind mapping is an invaluable tool for simplifying complex tasks.   You can use it to improve your performance in a wide range of areas including strategic planning, presentation preparation, meeting management, test preparation, and systems analysis. It's best to make your first few mind maps on relatively simple, lighthearted subjects. Choose one of the following topics to practice your mind-mapping skills. Take about twenty minutes for this first practice map.

Mind Map Your Favorite Movie. Begin with a simple drawing that represents your

favorite movie's title. Print key words and draw images that express the characters, plot, and themes. Remember to put key words and images on lines radiating out from your central symbol.

Mind Map Your Dream House. Explore the delightful fantasy of a dream house using a

mind map. Start with a symbol of your paradise in the center and then branch out with key words and images that represent the elements of your ideal living environment. Remember, let your mind work by association instead of trying to put things down in order. Just generate ideas for your ideal environment. Then after you have come up with a multitude of possibilities, you can go back and put them in order.

After you've made one or two practice mind maps, tackle the problem you wrote down at the seminar.

Instructions:

• Use a large piece of paper.

• Think of the idea you would like to explore or the problem you would like to solve. • In the center draw an abstract image of your topic.

• Free associate branches of the map - use keywords, color, pictures • Take a break and then generate another wave of branches.

• Take another break - review - look for connections and emerging themes connect related parts of your mind map with arrows, codes, colors, etc.

• Now, find relationships that can help you integrate and organize the most cogent ideas and then reorder them to reflect new possibilities or solutions.

Assessing Corporalita

The idea that a robust mind and a healthy body are linked was one of the concepts from ancient Greece that was revived during the Renaissance. Leonardo offered a prescription for the health of mind and body when wrote:

"To keep in health, these rules are wise:

• Beware of anger and avoid grievous moods. • Rest your head and keep your mind cheerful. • Be covered well at night.

• Exercise moderately.

• Shun wantonness, and pay attention to diet. • Eat only when you want and sup light.

• Keep upright when you rise from the dining table. • Do not be with the belly upwards or the head lowered.

• Let your wine be mixed with water, take a little at a time, not between meals and not on an empty stomach.

• Eat simple (i.e., vegetarian) food. • Chew well.

POST-PRESENTATION ACTIVITY:

Corporalita - check each statement that describes you Corporalita - check each statement that describes you

I am aerobically fit. I am getting stronger. My flexibility is improving.

I know when my body is tense or relaxed. I am knowledgeable about diet and nutrition. Friends would describe me as graceful.

I am aware of the ways in which my physical state affects my attitude. I am aware of the ways in which my attitude affect my physical state. I love to move.

• To make headway in developing your mental skills, it will be necessary to undertake improvements in your physical being. On the next page you will find some exercises to get you started on improving body awareness and condition.

Corporalita Exercises

Mirror Observation. Stand in front of a full-length mirror. Avoid judging or evaluating

your appearance, just observe your reflection objectively, and record your answers below:

Does your head tend to tilt to one side or the other?____________________________ Is one shoulder higher than the other? ______________________________________ Does your pelvis rock forward or is it held back? ______________________________ Is your weight distributed evenly on your feet or do you depend on one leg more than the other for support? ___________________________________________________ What parts of your body appear to be overly tense? ____________________________ Are your pelvis, torso, and head in a balanced alignment? _______________________

Review your responses. Are you surprised by these results?

_____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________

CURIOSITÀ

• Adams, Kathleen. Journal to the Self. New York: Warner Books, 1990. Filled with marvelous exercises for increasing self-knowledge.

• Goldberg, Merrilee. The Art of the Question: A Guide to Short-Term Question Centered

Therapy. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1998. A therapist's masterful application of

Curiosita.

• Gross, Ron. Peak Learning. Los Angeles: Jeremy P. Tarcher, I 991. A handbook for lifelong learners.

• Progoff, Ira. At a Journal Workshop. New York: Dialogue House, 1975. Progoff is the modern pioneer in the use of journaling as a tool for personal growth.

DIMOSTRAZIONE

• Alexander, F. M. The Use of the Self. New York: Dutton, 1932. An inspiring story of learning from experience.

• Gelb, Michael J. Innovate Like Edison: The Five Step System for Breakthrough

Business Success. New York, Penguin Group, 2007. Learn from the genius who brought us 1,093 United States patents.

• McCormack, Mark. What They Don't Teach You at Harvard Business School. New York: Bantam, 1984. Dimostrazione in the business world.

• Seligman, Martin. Learned Optimism. New York: Knopf, 1991. How to learn resilience in the face of adversity.

SENSAZIONE

• Ackerman, Diane. A Natural History of the Senses. New York: Vintage Books, 1991. The Chicago Tribune called it "an aphrodisiac for the sense receptors.”

• Campbell, Don. The Mozart Effect: Tapping the Power of Music to Heal the Body, Strengthen the Mind, and Unlock the Creative Spirit. New York: Avon Books' 1997.

• Collins, Terah Kathryn. The Western Guide to Feng Shui. Carlsbad, Calif.: Hay House, Inc. 1996.

• Cytowic, Richard. The Man Who Tasted Shapes. New York: Putnam, 1993. A neurologist's creative investigation of synesthesia.

• Gelb, Michael J. Wine Drinking for Inspired Thinking: Uncork Your Creative Juices. Philadelphia, Running Press, 2010. How to DRINK like Leonardo da Vinci!

SFUMATO

• Agor, Weston. The Logic of Intuitive Decision Making. Westport, Conm: Greenwood Press, 1986. Agor makes a strong case for the use of intuition in managing complexity.

• Gelb, Michael J. Thinking for a Change: Discovering the Power to Create, Communicate, and Lead. New York: Harmony Books, 1996. Introduces the concept of "Synvergent Thinking," an approach to thriving with Sfumato.

• May, Rollo. The Courage to Create. New York: Bantam, 1976. A seminal exposition of the central role of creative tension in a creative life.

• Buzan, Tony. Use Both Sides of Your Brain (third edition). New York: Penguin, 1989. Buzan's classic work, originally published in 1971, established him as the father of "whole-brain" education. An invaluable guide for anyone interested in balancing Arte and Scienza.

• Wonder, Jacqueline. Whole Brain Thinking. New York: Ballantine, 1985. Are you more Arte or Scienza? Wonder offers the opportunity to test your brain dominance.

CORPORALITA

• Anderson, Bob. Stretching. Bolinas, Calif.: Shelter Publications, 1980. • Cooper, Kenneth. New Aerobics. New York: Bantam, 1970.

• Gelb, Michael. Body Learning: An Introduction to the Alexander Technique. New York: Henry Holt & Company, 1987 (new edition, 1995). A guide to developing the Da Vincian qualities of poise, presence, and grace.

• Gelb, Michael J., The Five Keys to High Performance. New York, Gildan Media Group, 2009. This audio program will guide you to improve your learning ability as you age, embrace change, and discover resilience in the face of adversity as you learn how to juggle!

CONNESSIONE

• Gelb, Michel J. Discover Your Genius: How To Think Like History’s Ten Most Revolutionary Minds. New York, HarperCollins, 2002. Ten more geniuses!

• Kodish, Susan and Bruce. Drive Yourself Sane: Using the Uncommon Sense of

General Semantics. Englewood, N.J.: Institute of General Semantics, 1993. An

approachable work on systems thinking and general semantics.

• Lao-Tzu. Tao Te Ching: A New English Version, with forward and notes by Stephen Mitchell. New York: Harper & Row, 1988. Taoism mirrors many of the Maestro's insights. • Senge, Peter M. The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of the Learning Organization. New York: Doubleday, 1990. Guides the reader to see and understand patterns, relationships, and systems in business and everyday life.

• Wheatley, Margaret. Leadership and the New Science. San Francisco: Berret-Koehler Publishers, 1992. Applications of the new physics to understanding organizations.

For more activities like the exercises in this booklet, please refer to The How To Think Like Leonardo Workbook.

leading authority on the application of genius thinking to personal and organizational development. He is a pioneer in the fields of creative thinking, accelerated learning, and innovative leadership. Gelb leads seminars for organizations such as DuPont, Merck, Microsoft, Nike, Raytheon and YPO. He brings more than 30 years of experience as a professional speaker, seminar leader and organizational consultant to his diverse, international clientele. Michael Gelb is the author of 12 books on creativity and innovation including the international best seller

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