Best way to Brainstorm

As far as I am concerned, there are various different ways to brainstorm, but which one is the best one? In my opinion, mapping is a very useful tool as it helps you develop your ideas with much more creativity and it allows you to link a group of concepts together through your own natural associations. This acually happens because mapping is a much more visual tool than the rest, therefore you can very easily find the links between all your ideas.  However, it doesn´t just help you link ideas,  but benefits you in other ways such as to come up with more options and get into much more depth when it comes to the subject matter. I believe that mind maps tend to reproduce how your brain works as often, we consider many random ideas but we have no clue how to choose the most important ones. Nevertheless, with this technique, we can easily prioritize the most important ideas.