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Mind map for Beginners. How to make learning fun and fast. (Udemy.com)

Learn to Mind Map in 2 hrs with these succinct videos. A vital 21C skill to deal with information overload.

Created by: Darius Namdaran

Last updated September 2022

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What you will learn

  • Draw your first mind map
  • Choose if mind mapping works for you.
  • Calculate how much time mindmapping will save you.
  • Discover why Colleges and Universities recommend mind mapping for students

How it compares

Against the other 143 rated Udemy courses in Productivity on CourseDuck:

  • Rating4.8 out of 5higher than 95% of them
  • Reviews1,893#49 of 144 by number of reviews
  • Length2.3 hourslonger than 56% of them
  • Last updatedSeptember 2022earlier than 67% of them

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Course Description

Learn how to mind map. This course will take you as a complete beginner with carefully crafted time lapse videos that condense the normal 6 hours to learn this valuable life long skill into 90 min. Discover how mindmapping can transform your study strategy, saving stress and time. Saving over 2 weeks revision a year. Its especially valuable for working students. You will learn why people map and how to mind map using lots of walk through and time-lapse videos.

Learn Mind Map Basics Quickly and Thoroughly Using Five Principles.

  1. Discover why people mind map.
  2. Find your mind mapping style
  3. Learn five main principles of mind mapping.
  4. Know which words to put on your branches.
  5. Draw your own mind map

Ideal foundation course for High school pupils, University students and working students.

You’ll learn how to create a mind map in a step by step fun visual way, as you watch me draw mind maps, so you can see how its done, and the variety of techniques. Its a simple immersive way to learn how to create mind map notes is with a paper and pen.

Mindmap drawing is a simple and powerful learning tool. You can create a mind map straightforwardly with this course. I will show you how the only mindmap tool you need to get started is a paper and pen. You will learn how to mindmap in five easy steps. Using this simple technique you can learn how to create a mind map in an evening.

I’ve designed this course with lots of time-lapse video of maps being drawn to make it fast and visually engaging. A lot has been fitted into this fast paced course. All the main mind mapping techniques are covered. It would probably take a 5 hour course in real life to do the same without the time-lapse videos.

Mind map technique is simple, but takes a little practice, especially selecting keywords. There are some exercises and demonstrations to show how mind mapping works in real life. Knowing what words to put on the branches is an important mind map technique that is often overlooked and needs a little practice. Its normally what trips people up with actually using mind mapping in real life. There are two videos dedicated to this typical hurdle.

The course is full of creative mind map ideas which you can do without being an artist. Its like painting by numbers or colouring in once you know the techniques. See how you don’t need to be artistic to draw a mind map.

You will learn how to draw a mind map by doing the step by step walkthrough and draw a mind map in real time.

Mind mapping is great for revision. I will show you how a basic revision mind map can save you over 60 hours revision a year for high school, university or professional development. Revision maps need a strong grasp of finding the key words to put on the branches. This is a core focus of this course. Keywords are crucial for exam revision and successful mind map revision.

This course is the foundation for how to use mind mapping for studying. Learning mind mapping as a student is the ideal way to learn the skill. Once you have it you can use it for planning a project, business mind map and mind map brainstorming.

If your a student I’m sure you will complete this course inspired and equipped with mind map ideas that will save you time and help you learn faster.

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Instructor Details

Darius Namdaran

Avid learner and teacher. 25 Years of experience with mind mapping and project management. I've taught people to mind map in many settings, from school children to whole classes of University Students. I learnt during my Law Degree at Edinburgh University 25 years ago. Now I love to teach people these skills online. I want to help working students, especially those returning to do a second degree while working, how to deal with the information workload with mind mapping.

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Reviews

4.8

1,893 ratings on Udemy

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By Leah McIntosh on 7/28/2026

I feel like I've dipped my toes in the water, so to speak, with Mind Mapping with this course. I do hope to go back and watch the videos again as the instructor suggested. The topic was laid out well with not too much information at the first so you don't feel overwhelmed by what he's telling you. He's also encouraging and presents it in such a way that he's not talking down to you. I would take another one of his courses if he chose to do one. Thanks!

By Kevin Smith on 7/10/2026

Somewhat preaching to the converted, but extremely useful in guiding me to improving my use of them. Also, thanks for the demonstration of one of your points - that you don't have a good memory. If I didn't know better, I might actually believe that when you added item 27 you had forgotten that you'd already added it as item 26! :-)

By Gloria Wong on 8/27/2023

Darius is a phenomenal teacher, he's clear and concise and there is no waffling about or fluff/padding in the course. This is how a course should be presented. There was another course on mind-mapping that I bought on Udemy, it had a lot of reviews, however the visuals were not of quality and the presentation was too boring, and the information was just all over the place, I was maybe 2 videos in and just couldn't stand it and I am so glad I found this course instead. Worth every penny! Thank you Darius.

By Juuso Nevalainen on 2/7/2022

The course was relatively cheap, got it for 13$. I have never been a fan of mind maps, always hated doing them in school. Now I do understand that I thought so clearly because I did not know how to do them properly, always writing sentences in different bubbles and just overall making a mess of the information, trying to cram an essay into bubbles. This course has completely reversed my thoughts about mind mapping, and I now realize how absolutely amazing it is for any type of learning. I highly recommend getting it and showing some love to Darius for creating the course! Also, if you want to practice while watching the videos, try to create mind maps out of every lesson, even if it is just copying his maps on paper. Its some comfy practice that helps you figure out how exactly you make the maps!

By Daniel Goh on 1/5/2022

Good introduction of mind maps to beginners especially the 5 principles. I like the unpacking keywords section. However, I'm wondering how to unpack keywords on the fly during a live lecture? Would be nice to see a short video clip of a live mind mapping demo during a lecture or a conference talk. Bonus Videos 25 & 26 are the same. I hope the instructor can also update the course by providing some examples of mind mapping strategies for working professionals which he mentioned in the bonus video.

By Jacopo Durandi on 11/22/2020

Very nice course, it makes you wish to run, open a book and start mind-mapping!

By Graham Keil on 11/1/2020

Thanks I love the gentle pace of the narrator. Plus there is an affinity as I went to the same law school perhaps 10 years earlier thanks again

By Rolf Crisovan on 10/24/2020

Very good course and great fundamentals of mind mapping. The teacher has not answered any Q&A questions at all. therefore one star minus

By KONSTANTIN ARSIENKO on 10/23/2020

too much intro...get to the point.

By Geraldine Wee Lin Tan on 10/17/2020

I want to learn mind mapping for work/business reasons. So while the lessons teaches good mind map basics, it is essentially centered for students, and how mind mapping will help with study. Would prefer if I can learn how to apply mind mapping efficiently for a work perspective.

By Rita McIntosh on 10/7/2020

Detailed information. Knowledgeable instructor. Great support materials.

By Sarvajith S V on 9/26/2020

It's a wonderful introduction to mind maps, someplace to get started. Gives you a launching platform of sorts from where we can go on to advanced concepts elsewhere if we choose to. Not for people looking for advanced nitty gritty of mind maps. For absolute beginners.

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