How to Mind Map: The Ultimate Thinking Tool That Will Change Your Life
A practical mini ebook guide that teaches you how to Mind Map with ease from Tony Buzan, the inventor of the Mind Map.Mind Maps® are the ultimate thinking tool for maximizing your brainpower and radically improving your performance. Mind Mapping is a revolutionary system of planning and note taking that has changed the lives of millions of people all over the world.How to Mind Map is THE definitive guide to Mind Maps brought to you by their inventor Tony Buzan. This practical guide explains everything you need to know about Mind Maps and shows how they make it easy to:Get started on and plan a project• Think up brilliant ideas• Remember things• Save time.
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TONY BUZAN
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First published by Thorsons 2002
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This book is dedicated to the human brain and its incredible powers of Imagination and Association, which are unleashed by the magic of Mind Maps>®.
Contents
What Do You Need to Make a Mind Map?
Discovering Your Natural Mind Mapping Ability
Imagination and Association Game
Seven Steps to Making a Mind Map
Your Daily Life Made More Successful with Mind Maps
Communication and Presentations Mind Map
Planning Family Events Mind Map
Persuading People and Negotiating with Mind Maps
Starting a New Venture Mind Map
How to Reduce a Book to a Single Page Mind Map
Making the Most of Your Creativity with Mind Maps
Unleashing Your Amazing Creative Power with Mind Maps
Linear Note-taking and Its Problems
The Worldwide Web in Your Head and Its Creative Power
The Great Creative Geniuses and Note-taking
Mind Mapping Your Way through a Problem
Planning a Presentation Mind Map
Planning Family Events Mind Map
Planning a Romantic Weekend Mind Map
Let me tell you the story of how Mind Maps and How to Mind Map came into being.
As a young child I had loved the idea of taking notes and of learning. By the time I was a teenager my thinking was already getting into a mess, and I began to hate anything to do with study, especially note-taking. I began to notice the extraordinary paradox that the more notes I took the worse my studies and memory became. In an effort to improve matters I began to underline key words and ideas in red and to put important things in boxes. Magically, my memory began to improve.
In my first year of university, I was still struggling. It was then that I became fascinated by the Greeks, for I learned that they had developed memory systems that enabled them to recall perfectly hundreds and thousands of facts. The Greek memory systems were based on Imagination and Association, which I noticed to my amusement and concern were absent from my own notes!
I then began to notice that everyone around me was taking the same kind of crowded, one-color and monotonous notes as I was. None of us was using the principles of Imagination and Association—we were all in the same sinking boat!
I suddenly realized that in my head and the collective “global brain,” there was a gigantic log-jam that needed a new note-taking and thinking tool to unblock it.
I set out in search of a thinking tool that would give us the freedom to think and the freedom to think in the way we were designed to think.
I began to study every subject I could, especially psychology. In psychology I discovered that there were two main things important to the brain during learning: Association and Imagination. Similar to the Greeks! By now I was becoming fascinated by my brain and what I realized were its power and potential. The power and potential were both much greater than I had thought. I began to focus on memory, note-taking and creativity, as it seemed that the answer to my quest would lie with them.
I quickly discovered that most of the great thinkers, especially Leonardo da Vinci, used pictures, codes and connecting lines in their notes. They “doodled” and thus made their notes come alive.
