[Marc Greve]

A couple of months ago I intended to find a book that would change my mind and my life. The next day I went into a bookstore here in New Zealand and spent an hour and a half reading a book by Tony Buzan on mindmapping, creative and verbal intelligence. I felt a very strong connection with the book and the entire scene (completely forgot I was in a bookstore, I'd just sat down on the floor and read).

What was interesting however was the results of my mindmapping. I began thinking MUCH faster. Before I was sub-vocalizing every thought to myself, but reviewing my mindmaps regularly made me see visual "pathways" and branches of the interconnection of subjects I was thinking about.
I will then literally, in my mind's eye, race through the branches at incredible speeds and come up with new great ideas.

Also - a useful thing for the kinesthetic people;
When reviewing mindmaps trace your hand under the branches as you're looking at them and really get into it. Start rubbing the pages. Does wonders for your focus and recall.

Some people who've participated in this thread do not seem all too clear on what mindmaps are, or perhaps they've been shown some horrible example in elementary school of it (ie. boxes with keywords connected by straight lines), so here's a link to some good samples:

Buzan Centre Australia : Mind Map Gallery