The Mind Map Book: Unlock your creativity, boost your memory, change your life

I thought I knew something about Mind Mapping but this book really spells it all out. It starts out with a very brief, very simple foundation explaining how the cognitive (thinking) mind works and then builds on that showing how Mind Mapping compliments the brain and our own thought process. I have found it to be quite interesting and informative. Now I have a better understanding of the Mind Mapping process, the importance of radiant thinking applied to mind mapping, and how color and images when used with Mind Maps are also an important aid in memory and recall.

I was about to begin studying again after a long time of not doing any. The chances of me being successful was preying on my mind and i began to doubt myself. I found it a struggle to gather thoughts and think creatively.This book is written very clear and easy to understand. I am so glad that i found this book, in particular i found the short exercises were really helpful to my needs and also found this is a very interesting subject, i could not put the book down once i started reading it. I would recommend this book to anyone who has a related problem or just interested in how the mind works!

As a professional, I always strive to better myself at work and in my personal life. Because life is very busy at work and at home, we often take little time to reflect on past events, to learn skills so one can improve in areas such as creativity, communication concentration, memory, or notes taking. I was looking for a different way in taking notes as well as problem solving that would allow me to think more freely. The book from T. Buzan provides tools to allow me to do just that. Like every new skill we learn, practice is an important aspect of learning. Therefore, to take this seriously, it is important to allocate time to go through the exercises and try to use the techniques whenever possible. Someone said to me recently: "you will only get back what you out in". For the techniques of T. Buzan to work for you, practice, practice, practice.

Never known anything like it. I use mind maps at school with the children I support, not really knowing how they came about or much about mind maps. Im currently working through the book, and now having greater knowledge. Becoming a little more crazy with ideas. would recommend to others and use in conjunction with the memory book, the two books work hand in hand.

The definitive work on Mind Mapping from the originator Tony Buzan.

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Another good book by Tony Buzan. Lots of interesting ideas and hints.

Buzan's mind map reminds me the so called flowcharts I learned on 80's designed in a funnyway and usng the treebrach philosophy in a 'multilayered way' His book is entrertaining and published in color withlots of images from him and his scholars. The phiolosophy is very simple as the flowcharts. tHere is no reason to read the whole book excpt the chapter 8 which is the manual of mind mapping The remain parts are some aplications of this theory. The only question is on how this method can help dyslexic people to learn as a friend of me to whom it i also destined as refered in the first chaptes. 3/5

Avevo chiesto un consiglio a un mio amico per memorizzare molti argomenti per un esame. Mi ha prestato il libro delle mappe mentali in italiano. Appena ho iniziato a leggerlo ho deciso di comprare questa copia in inglese. È un argomento molto utile in vari campi illustrato chiaramente dal suo principale ideatore e sostenitore. Utile per creare, lavorare e studiare. Principi applicabili anche per i bambini. Da leggere. Assolutamente.

Awesome book thank you

El libro está muy bien. Probablemente sea el mejor libro de MindMaps que he leido. Pero pienso realmente que para poder entender bien los mapas mentales hace falta un curso como el que he realizado recientemente en EMOWE.

Tony Buzan's book (I read the 2010 BBC Active edition) has been a very actionable book for me. I was feeling at an impasse with committing my plans and thoughts into paper and couldn't place why it took me so long to write so little and why I couldn't remember or get excited for taking notes, even for projects I liked. The book pointed out, correctly in my case, that linear, text-heavy notes don't stimulate a lot of areas in the brain and thus require more repetition to stick. In contrast, less wordy maps that incorporate visual cues (graphics, arrows, font change, colors ...) activate a lot more brain regions and so stick better. As a bonus, adding aesthetics to a map (doodling and embellishing the branches, keywords...) makes it memorable and stimulates further associations, not to mention actually making it fun. And I am no artist by any stretch. Buzan amply provides up to date reputable research from cognitive psychology to highlight what works for the brain in cognitive tasks such as remembering, keeping flow and analysing. The mind map, he constantly reminds, is supposed to somewhat mirror what the brain is doing when it associates, remembers... Also, the book practices what he preaches and is filled with colors, both in the text and with colorful and picture rich mind maps. His guidelines are well illustrated. The book also gives light in-chapter exercises so that the point is brought home then and there. It is easy to digest with chapters seldom topping 10 pages. Here and there, Buzan plugs his iMindmap software but the plugs are localized to that chapter for the most part and not very intrusive. For me chapters 8, on techniques, and 13 on the note taking process as a whole, including how to attack a book in waves and factoring time IN ADVANCE, were gold mines of good ideas. I wish I had this stuff when I was in school. Would have extracted more from those big textbooks. Buzan reminds us that notes are really conversations between us (what we associate with the material) and the author (what he or she associates). Remembering the material is just one goal of note taking, and analysis (which comes from the structure of the map, for instance) and creativity (in adding our associations to the ideas as well as the author's) also play a role while taking notes. It's a perspective I've seldom heard and which makes sense to me. The book is filled with those insights and not just in the abstract; there are examples everywhere. My first few mind maps were, as expected, uneven and not following all guidelines but with each one and reskimming paragraphs in those two chapters, the maps improved and got better. Revising existing maps allowed me to commit them better to memory and further pin down what the main ideas I'm building around are. All in all, I highly recommend this book for people stuck in text land and feeling something missing in how they understand the subject matter they are working with.

Très beau livre en quadrichromie, papier épais, belles reproductions de mind maps. Mise en page bien aérée, en grosse police. Je passe rapidement les chapitres introductifs sur la structure arborescente du cerveau pour en arriver au concret : comment faire, pour quelles applications. Les chapitres sont plutôt succincts, émaillés de de reproductions de maps dont la valeur est une fois sur deux artistique. Bref, arrivé à la moitié de l'ouvrage, sa substantifique moelle n'est guère plus conséquente que les informations que j'avais déjà glanées sur l'internet. La fin n'ayant pas l'air plus prometteuse, je regrette cet achat.