And I can, at any time, flit between groups as unrelated ideas strike. And as those groups fill out, I can more easily see where the blank spots are. Once those initial groupings are in place, I can focus within the more finite scopes of the group to generate new, related ideas. As those flickers become map nodes and start to pile up, groupings start to become apparent, and I sort the ideas as they do. I start with the random flickers of ideas related to whatever the central topic is. It focuses on a finite portion of my overall mind mapping strategy. This is for starting a map with nothing but a central topic. This is separate from the process I use when beginning a project, where I have a very good idea what the main areas are going to be. Doing it on a computer or tablet where I can spill-and-sort my ideas is paramount. That does not work for me, I need things to be more malleable. Side note: if you read Tony Buzan (RIP) and subsequent mind mapping purists, they often talk about the need for mind maps to be on paper. Being able to start churning out ideas before I start pondering organization - before I even have to decide what it really is I’m brainstorming - gets things rolling with zero delay. I can just spill them out into something I can assess and manipulate. I don’t need to know how things are going to be sorted at all. I don’t have to know what my top level groupings will be. I’ve said it before: I like mind maps because they make it easy for my thoughts to come out in whatever order they happen to come up, and as disorganized as they are in my head. I believe that the techniques I share can apply to anyone’s brainstorming, the ADHD connection just helped clarify for me why the things I do (and the tools I use) work for me. It takes some work to go deep on a single topic, but we’re great at the surface level associations and development. Brainstorming is kind of a superpower of the ADHD mind. It’s come to my attention that the way I brainstorm has a lot to do with my ADHD.
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