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Do you have a creative mind and find yourself imitating other creative types in the present period and scholars, philosophers and historical figures of the past? There are some creative minds out there that like to compete, which is interesting in that usually the creative mind is not so concerned with what anyone else is doing. Yet these folks exist and it is said that they are about 1-2% of our population and part of the 7-8% of the population that is creative. Luckily in the United States despite all the structure in our laws and society there seems to be a higher percentage here than elsewhere in the world. Many believe this is due to our freedoms and liberty.

Since I am one of those competitive type creative individuals among many other things I would like to explain what some of these 1-2% creative type minds do when competing. Thus again fractionalizing the 1-2% as only some of these do it this way. You see some of the 1-2% do not compete in a formal sense or enter competitions so to speak instead they look at other creative people when not creating themselves and compete in their minds against the innovations of others. Often they end up in some form of competition, but not necessarily by objective but rather by just doing whatever it is they are doing. Such individuals and I am speaking of myself here would like to start research companies to solve a problem they see in the World or re-align a mal-aligned problem that they see.

Who might a person who is of a super competitive mind decide to compete against in today’s world? Well for me I have picked a few folks and watch their innovations and ideas and attempt to better their concepts or figure out better possible alternatives. It is much like the karate kid trying to compete against his master or in this case a set of masters who have plenty of ideas and non-ending new innovations to look at. For my mentor set or rather those I look up to for competitive insight are; Ray Kurzweil, Bill Gates, Leonardo da Vinci, Paul McCready, Burt Rutan on various concepts. There are about ten others in different industries which I study and compete against in my mind. Perhaps you might pick your own virtual challengers or people to help you develop your creative mind competition?

It is like I am saying to myself; “Oh Yah, I can do better than that” and I do not know why I am doing that or why others do this, perhaps this is an innate characteristic of an actualized human mind or just a way to exercise one’s brain? As one does this more and more it is as if they cannot look at anything, read another’s work, white paper or consider any innovation, design or concept without immediately going into a competition their minds. This is what I have done and it works for me. I suppose different things work for different minds and human personality displacements. It is funny that one would do this, I respect all these people, perhaps not always their political views, yet highly respect their innovative creativity.

Much of the human mind is based on belief and well, at times I actually feel, that I can do better in some of their concepts, yet, one could say that is an ego-trip and it seems silly to put myself into their level of expertise at the things they do or their innovative concepts, yet then again why not? It is something that I have been wondering about the competitive creative mind and of course my own mind.

Perhaps you have such questions or insights about yourself if you are one of the 7-8% of the population, which is not like the others and possess that creative spark. If you are then perhaps a little mindful competition is worthy. Indeed once you start you may not be able to stop. I cannot seem to stop doing it, it is all in my mind of course, yet my output surpasses all others I can see out there with regard to the range of topics, subjects and industry sectors of the creativity, so it must be a good thing and indeed many of my innovative concepts are coming to fruition which is also very fulfilling from a psychological standpoint I would assume. I know there are others like me out there with creative competitiveness, as I have met a handful in my life and been very impressed and happy to meet them.

You know in all fairness; some of my ideas are lousy, some good, some brilliant, but all are interesting and could lead to another thought to get to brilliance or ultra-brilliant concepts. So if you have innovative ideas and concepts and would like to discuss them, it is okay if a few of them are duds, because the great one is right around the corner, think on this.

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An important element of any learning is memory. Without it all our learning will be futile. While some are endowed with razor sharp memory, there are others, who find their memory failing them at the most crucial moments in their life. As in everything else, memory can be improved a great deal by applying some of the memory techniques.

1. In any new learning, you can grasp new information easily by associating the new information with your acquired learning. This will help you to see the relational aspects of certain principles, mechanism, truth or whatever, and lend greater meaning and significance to the information learnt.

2. Studies have revealed that memory is augmented by using both sides of your brain. This is known as whole-brain thinking. The left side of our brain dominates in logic, words, lists, numbers, sequences and analysis, while the right side excels in rhythm, imagination, daydreaming, color, size and spatial awareness. Working on combining the left and right attributes will strengthen memory.

3. Many problems of memory are primarily due to lack of proper attention. .

4. You can visualize what you want to remember by picturing them as a sequence; the more bizarre, humorous and exaggerated the images, greater the recall.

5. You can link the main ideas or items of information by stringing them into an unusual story. E.g. if you have to buy vegetables, pick up laundry and buy toys, you could link them into a story: Tomato quashes on your shirt, you have to go to the laundry for cleaning when Mickey Mouse welcomes you.

6. Using acronyms is an effective way for remembering items in an order by making a word out of each item to be recalled. E.g. My Very Elegant Mother Just Served Us Nine Peas - represent 9 planets of the sun - Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.

7. When the first letter of each item stands for a word in a phrase it is known as Acrostic. Eg. Pink = Pink is a special color; I like it more for its subtle shade, Never loud or garish; Kind of gentle and pleasing always.

8. Chunking is another effective technique applied often in numbers. For e.g. If you have to remember 10 digit telephone numbers, you can split them into units of 5 - 98412-84523. You can also chunk items under a general concept - Fruits, Vegetables, etc.

While these are some of the common techniques for enhancing your memory, an equally powerful and easy technique for reinforcing learning and memory is the Mind Mapping. The Mind Mapping technique is primarily based on how we think, remember and recall. British Psychologist, Mr. Tony Buzan, developed the technique based on the theories of memory. His studies on memory and the brain, led him to invent the Mind Map technique.

The intrinsic worth of this technique is that it induces whole-brain thinking by triggering a chain of associated thoughts and ideas, and stimulating the full resources of the brain. Since you note down your thoughts on a subject or issue, you will be engaging your full and focused attention to it. In addition, the technique employs visual stimuli such as colors, pictures, symbols, dimensions, etc., adding to the vividness, and greatly strengthening memory and dissemination.

The Mind Map technique is primarily aimed at improving your memory vastly, and giving full rein to your inner thoughts and process. It thus has the potential to trigger greater creativity, imagination and insight. It is indeed a great memory grosser!! You have to learn and use the technique and then you will know how your memory never lets you down.

About the Author:

Dr. Vj Mariaraj is a Mind Map enthusiast and has been using Mind Maps for the past twelve years. He has created over 5650 Mind Maps. To learn more about mind mapping and to download a free Mind map of a Business Book, send an email to freemindmap@aweber.com or visit http://BusinessBookMindMap.com/mind-map.php?ea