"Paradoxically one of the greatest advantages of mind maps is that they are seldom needed again. The very act of constructing a map is itself so effective in fixing ideas in memory that very often a whole map can recalled without going back to it at all. A mind map is so strongly visual and uses so many of the natural functions of memory that frequently it can be simply read off in the mind's eye."

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Source: Peter Russell (2013). “The Brain Book: Know Your Own Mind and How to Use it”, p.105, Routledge

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Peter Russell is a British author and speaker known for his work on consciousness and the evolution of human awareness, particularly in 'Waking Up in Time'.

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