The reason why so many people assume that they are incapable of creating images is that, instead of understanding that the brain always succeeds through continued experimentation, they mistake initial failure for fundamental incapacity and as its true measure of their talent. They therefore leave to wither and die a mental skill which could have flourished naturally. In his book Ghosts in Mind's Machine, S.M. Kosslyn states that 'in most of our imaginary experiments people definitely improve with practice'. Mind mapping reawakens this exceptional visualizing capacity.Where the brain develops its ability to image, so it develop its thinking capacity, its perceptual abilities, its memory, its creativity and its confidence. Two widespread and damaging beliefs have led to the modern rejection of our visualizing skills:
That images and colours are somehow primitive, childish, immature and irrelevant.

That the power to create and produce images is a god - given talent dispensed to a tiny minority. (It is in fact a god - given talent bestowed on everyone!)