January 17, 2005

The Ultimate Brain Map

Lion Kimbro helps you get your head together with How to Make a Complete Map of Every Thought you Think

From the introduction:

This book is about how to make a complete map of everything you think for as long as you like.

Whether that's good or not, I don't know- keeping a map of all your thoughts has a freezing effect on the mind. It takes a lot of (albeit pleasurable) work, but produces nothing but SIGHT.

If you do the things described in this book, you will be IMMOBILIZED for the duration of your commitment.The immobilization will come on gradually, but steadily. In the end, you will be incapable of going somewhere without your cache of notes, and will always want a pen and paper w/ you. When you do not have pen and paper, you will rely on complex memory pegging devices, described in "The Memory Book". You will NEVER BE WITHOUT RECORD, and you will ALWAYS RECORD.


YOU MAY ALSO ARTICULATE. Your thoughts will be clearer to you than they have ever been before. You will see things you have never seen before. When someone shows you one corner, you'll have the other 3 in mind. This is both good and bad. It means you will have the right information at the right time in the right place. It also means you may have trouble shutting up. Your mileage may vary.

You will not only be immobilized in the arena of action, but you will also be immobilized in the arena of thought. This appears to be contradictory, but it's not really. When you are writing down your thoughts, you are making them clear to yourself, but when you revise your thoughts, it requires a lot of work -- you have to update old ideas to point to new ideas. This discourages a lot of new thinking. There is also a "structural integrity" to your old thoughts that will resist change. You may actively not-think certain things, because it would demand a lot of note keeping work. (Thus the notion that notebooks are best applied to things that are not changing.)

For all of this immobility, this freezing, for all of these negative effects, why on Earth would anyone want to do this?

Because of the INCREDIBLE CLARITY that comes with it....

If you want to move through this via HTML, Kimbro's Wiki is FrontPage - Notebooks.

Still, for those of you who may not hunger for mapping the entire brain, here's a way to get the web to be your brain. Information management - How to use Gmail as your second brain.

There, that feels better. Doesn't it?

Posted by Vanderleun at January 17, 2005 12:18 AM
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