Product Description

A practical pocket guide that teaches you how to mind-map with ease from Tony Buzan, the inventor of the mind-map. This innovative method has enabled students to retain and recall information easily and improve their grades, and allowed business brains to work more efficiently and improve their performance at work.This mini-guide to mind-mapping will teach you all you need to get started on this revolutionary system, to maximize your brainpower and improve your creativity.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #286279 in Books
• Published on: 2002-10-21
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 128 pages

Review
'The whole world should Mind Map.' THE EXPRESS 'Tony Buzan will do for the brain what Stephen Hawking did for the universe.' THE TIMES 'If you put Buzan's theories to the test, you could find yourself memorizing pages from a phone book or becoming the brainiest person in the world.' PC WORLD MAGAZINE 'More than a few serious minds out there are paying attention.' INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE

About the Author
Tony Buzan is the world-renowned inventor of Mind Maps and the multi-million copy bestselling author of Head First, Head Strong and The Mind Map Book. He appears regularly on television and lectures all over the world. His work has been published in 100 countries and 30 languages.

Customer Reviews

Good book despite hype
This is a good book. It covers mind mapping briefly. It could have been even more brief, but for the rather outlandish claims of its author. Tony Buzan is given to a lot of exaggeration. Shorn of the inflated claims, the book could well have been a small and effective booklet.

The subject of the book is worthy of learning and usage. Mind mapping offers a very easy technique that requires little more than color pens and paper (though rather expensive software is also available). The method is simple -- a central topic in the middle, followed by radiating branches denoting concepts, sub-concepts, and further conceptual breakdowns. Arranging information spatially rather than linearly as in to-do lists and written notes helps place each node of information in context, and also helps the brain "grok" the entire picture all at once.

One thing I find surprising about Buzan's book is -- why did he not mind-map his book itself? It would have been much easier to understand the concepts that way.

I would recommend that you purchase the book by Joyce Wycoff rather than this one. The former book contains some good examples of mind maps and its applications.

For those inclined to using software, FreeMind is an excellent freeware application that helps one create mind maps.

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!

There are no new insights. What a real disappointment!
How to Mind Map
By Tony Buzan

I want to say this: I really marvel at the marketing savvy of Tony Buzan in spinning more & more books from his original pioneering collection of five books published by the BBC outfit during the seventies, without adding any real value - & or new technological enhancements - to his loyal readers. I find that most of his newer books since then tend to be rehashed or expanded mildly with a slight twist.

This book is no exception. For a greenhorn, this book still stands out as relatively great work. The step by step instructions on doing your own mind maps are very clear & easy to follow. However, the moment you start to compare this book with the author's earlier works, for example, `Use Both Sides of Your Brain' or `Make the Most of Your Mind' or `The Mind Map Book, or `Mind Maps at Work', anyone can see clearly that there are no new insights. What a real disappointment!

I would have thought that, if Tony Buzan had really wanted to add value to his loyal readers, instead of his own pockets, he should probably have created a mind map of the book's contents in the form of a large poster, which can then be folded to form a handy pocket guide for readers. This would have been a great gift to his loyal readers. However, one of his early disciples in the United States, Michael Gelb, had already jumped the gun by producing one good one in the late eighties. Please read my review of Michael Gelb's `The New Mind Map'. In this case, Tony Buzan could still do something better: he could probably make use of his iMindMap software to create an exploded view of the book's contents! He could even put it in a CD or DVD format where readers can access the mind map with a viewer.

To sum up: Has Tony Buzan run out of steam? Sad to say, I believe so.