Book Review: The Mind Map Book
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The potential of the human brain is phenomenal, and Tony Buzan has been a pioneer in researching that potential and helping people learn how to make the most of their brainpower. The Mind Map Book is his most important and comprehensive book on the subject. It offers exciting new ways of using and improving memory, concentration, and creativity in planning and structuring thought on all levels, in order to accelerate the ability to learn, remember, and record information.
Mind Mapping and Radiant Thinking are groundbreaking methods of accessing intelligence, developed over many years by the author, and in The Mind Map Book he provides a complete operating manual for all who want to use their brains to their fullest potential. It is a process currently used with extraordinary success by multinational corporations, leading universities, champion athletes, and outstanding artists. Featuring a range of stimulating excercises and a lavish collection of full-color photographs and original Mind Maps that illustrate the technique, it shows you precisely how to:
-Mirror and magnify your brain's pattern of perception and association in the way you learn, think, and create
-Quickly master the right way to take notes, organize a speech, a writing assignment, a report
-Join with others to pool thinking productively, memorize a mammoth amount of data, free your ideas to grow and expand constantly in depth and dimension
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About the Author
Tony Buzan is the creator of Mind Maps and the originator of the concept of Mental Literacy. Mind Maps is a graphic technique that provides a universal key to unlock the potential of the brain. In 1968, Tony was working in London as a teacher and editor of the Mensa International journal, when the BBC asked him to host a ten-part educational series called Use Your Head. This program started a successful 25-year collaboration.
Tony is the holder of the world record for Creative I.Q. and is head of an international network of brain clubs. He established the Brain Foundation, which organizes the World Memory Championships, and is co-founder of the International Mind Sports Olympiad. In addition, much of his work is devoted to helping those with learning disabilities.
Tony is an elected member of the International Council of Psychologists and a Fellow of the Institute of Training and Development. He is also a prize-winning poet and author of over 20 bestsellers on the brain and learning. His classic, Use Both Sides of Your Brain, has sold more than two million copies worldwide. His books have been published in 50 countries and translated into 20 languages.
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