As someone who is interested in personal productivity methods and techniques, my eye was caught by the picture of a ‘mind map’ type image whilst surfing local news stories this morning. It would seem that ‘Britain’s worst stalker’, who has just been jailed for his crimes, used a rudimentary mind map to plan his campaign against the ‘Fascist Horde’, those legal and halthcare professionals he imagined were plotting against him. I can’t help wondering what Tony Buzan would make of it. Whilst one accepts that the Buzan Centre‘s assertion that mindmapping will help ‘unleash the remaining 99% of your brain’ is, to some extent, marketing hyperbole, the possibilities of those with sociapathic or stalking tendencies using such techniques to further their own ends will not offer much comfort to the subjects of their obsessions. Move over Minette Waters and Ian Rankin, I feel a novel coming on…
