Mind Maps and Reflections on Learning in Higher Dimensions

Learning linearly in a world of multiple dimensions has is like looking at a 360 video through a telescope. How much are you actually seeing, even though you know what you're looking at is 360 degrees? I have been working on this Obsidian system for a few weeks now. I realized that back in my formative stages in building this business was being driven with big dreams and no quality systems. I was running on fumes because I didn't have a "push-button" solution for my business operations, let alone my learning (being a writer/director/filmmaker as well). Ideas come and go, but the great ideas that I wish I had written down are the ones I believe could have radically changed my trajectory in my business, life, and learning. But it's changed now since understanding truly how to learn, gather raw ideas, and export those ideas in a synthesized through-line in congruent way proportionate to my identity and what I do for a living. Is truly what makes us filmmakers grow in our creativity more and more ideas? Or is it the right ideas packaged in mental model and playbook in order to execute more efficiently? I believe it's the latter. In film, specifically narrative filmmaking, not only every frame is needed to be tracked and meticulously developed scientifically for the art, but also tracking the ideas, intentions, motives, and what beat of the story we are watching, let alone the cinematography and art direction, in order to cement the ideas and themes into the viewers' minds. That's art, and when it is reverse engineered, that's a science. "The map is not the territory" is a quick mental model that has been used all around the personal development space for decades, but practically speaking for us creators, it poses the question: How can I visualize my mind on a 2D system for me to understand how these ideas are formed on the territory (or film)? So far, using Obsidian, even using some Claude Tokens, to synthesize source material & potential ideas combined with potential heuristics and playbooks, and then "exporting" these synthesized ideas into my own mind, has been a game changer for developing my own voice, the content I want to make, and even the modus operandi for myself and my day to day purpose. It has helped reverse engineer these connections, creating synthesized idea connections, overlaps, matrices, and simple tables, in order to pick and choose anything from literary beats, all the way to what step 36 of a business playbook does, developing heuristics specifically for me. Even inspired me to take slow-learn and take my time to read novels. Today is a new day of learning. Learning at this level isn't guaranteed tomorrow. But what I know is guaranteed for tomorrow: My mind is prepared for creation for whatever I want. And that's a huge gift and privilege. Keep up the creativity, create those maps, and develop what works best for you and your business. -J