The Main Idea

• Select a drawing medium, i.e. pen and paper or online software for the task.

• Create the main concept. Find the central idea that connects to all other ideas on your map.

• Identify key concepts and list them on the page as briefly as possible.

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When listening to a lecture, identify key phrases, ideas, and takeaway points. When you hear something you’ll need to remember, jot down keywords to serve as reminders.

Our hands might be scribbling furiously, but in an effort to capture everything, our minds focus on the task of transcribi...

In this stage we’ll find ways that will help us to recall what we want to say on the day itself. We might create a mind map as a visual prompt, or rely on short-form notes. Flintoff reminds us that the very act of writing something down (by hand), or creating that mind map, will ...