We live in a linear world. We write lists from top to bottom. We read line by line. We follow agendas step one, two, three.
While students were taught to take boring, monochrome notes (think: dense paragraphs and Roman numerals), Buzan realized this actually killed the brain's natural creativity. He argued that note-taking should be a celebration of the brain’s architecture. tony buzan mapa mental
Buzan insisted on organic, flowing lines. Straight lines bore the brain. Curved, thick lines near the center (the "Basic Ordering Ideas") that thin out as they radiate outward feel natural to the eye. We live in a linear world