How to Mind Map: The Ultimate Thinking Tool That Will Change Your Life

by Tony Buzan

Book Overview

A practical pocket guide that teaches you how to Mind Map with ease from Tony Buzan, the inventor of the Mind Map.

Mind Maps(R) 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0007146841
• ISBN13: 9780007146840
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: Thorsons
• Length: 103 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.4" x 6.2"

Customer Reviews

Excellent book for beginners

Wondering what is a mind map? Then this book is for you. If you are already using mind maps, then skip this book. It is intended to get the uninitiated up and running and does a great job. It tells what mind maps are, how they work and walks you through your first mind map.

Useful and Enlightening Book

The book describes how our brain works, and explains the mind map as a graphical tool to apply radiant thinking which is described as a more effective way of using our brain potential. The book is well written, easy to read and follow, full of beautiful images and convincing arguments. The author explains how to use radiant thinking to maximize our untapped potential. Presented clearly and colorfully, the book explains how we can come up with our own mind maps to help improve our memory, concentration and creativity in planning and structuring our thoughts. I found the book interesting and enlightening as it explains a more natural approach to organize thoughts than what we are trained to think linearly. This book shows you the various ways that you can create a mind map and how this can be helpful in all subjects. Since reading the book I have been using mind maps to organize my work, learn French, make out my daily to do list, planning meetings, writing minutes and outline papers I will present with some success. The book is well worth reading.

Learn Mind Mapping and Teach your Kids

I wish I'd known how to do this in college! Mind Mapping is great tool with all sorts of uses and this book is short enough for anyone to learn how to do it. Like most "life-hack" type tools, you'll get out of it what you put into it. In other words, you have learn it and use it to get much benefit. I do recommend it for kids--it's a great, simple way to organize most writing assignments, speeches, and other projects. They'll probably still have to do the old boring Roman numeral outlines, I suppose, but the mind-map can make that much easier, too! So, Buzan's a bit grandiose--mind-mapping probably won't bring world peace, but hey, neither does anything else!

Short and good

As a Buzan Licensed Instructor in the Netherlands, I would advise this book to everbody who wants to enter the exiting world of Mind Mapping. I like books which go straight to the bottom of the case. This practical pocket will do just that. With practical examples, like plan a presentation or report, think up brillant ideas, persuade people and negotiate, Tony Buzan will jumpstart you in the Mind Map area. These examples are displayed as beautiful and colorful mind maps; the way it should be. I love it's simplicity!

Perfect Gift for An Open Mind

Mind mapping is a powerful tool. It has helped me in many ways, remembering material for exams, planning for future, preparing for presentation, or more. I do agree with the previous reviewer that most of the material on this book can be found on internet. I have downloaded much info for mind map myself. But which book is so original that you cannot find any piece (concrete of conceptional) of it from internet? Besides, excellently edited/organized color pages, like children's books, are always pleasant, isn't it? To promote the tool of mind map, a tiny book like this is an excellent gift idea. How many of you have friends who do not use internet? How many of you have friends who use internet, but cannot find the information he/she needs? How many of you have friends who simply do not believe what they see on the screen? How many of you read electric-shock-proof material in bathroom? How many of you want to give a gift that can ultimately change the recipient's life? This is it!!!You can carry it to work, baseball games, or picnic. This book can easily slip into your pocket and provide good reference to the methodology of mind map when needed. This book can also serve as an anchor on your book shelf to remind you constantly the value of mind map. I cannot see the reason why you should not have it as a gift...even if you know this method by heart like I do...Give this book to family members, co-workers, students, relatives, and any one you care about. The mind map methodology may be the one thing they need today to suceed!