The Mind Map Book: How to Use Radiant Thinking to Maximize Your Brain's Untapped Potential

"..half of the human brain is devoted directly or indirectly to vision.." said Professor Mriganka Sur of MIT's Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences --------------------------------In this book, Tony Buzan convincingly argues for the importance of Mind Mapping--a method of recording and organizaing information based on the nature of human brains. After reading this book and experimenting with Mind Mapping myself, I do believe that our usual writing system does not enable our brains to function effectively and Mind Mapping is a major improvement over it. Mind Mapping is based on a few basic principles summarized as follows:* Represent concepts with keywords* Make associations* Organize into hierarchy* Visualize concepts using images* Stimulate your brain with colors and symbols* Order and emphasize according to importanceThe major benefits from the use of Mind Maps are:* Images, colors, and associations stimulates creative thinking. * Mind Mapping forces you to think actively about the things you learn.* Efficiency in making/taking notes.* Learning is simply more fun!The latter part of the book suggests many uses of Mind Maps: writing a personal diary, sharing stories within a family, thinking, teaching, making notes, presenting a lecture, and collaborating in a professional environment. For example, Boeing created a 25-foot long Mind Map summarizing an aircraft engineering manual, which helped save millions of dollars worth of staff time.Tony's writing is lucid and the presentation of the book is excellent. I found the colorful examples given throughout the book especially inspiring and useful. The only complaints I have would be frequent repetition of information and sometimes excessive claims of the power of our brains without solid scientific proofs. These will however likely to have positive impacts on the readers, that is, help them think more positively about their own capability and strengthening the message that the book wants to deliver. So you can think of them as features or defects depending on your personal preferences.Given the amount and complexity of information we need to deal with in the modern world, Mind Mapping is a very valuable tool everyone needs to possess. The benefits far outweigh the cost of learning it.

This is a concept that I first discovered from Rick Steves when taking a trip to Europe. For allot of people it is easier to organize your thoughts with a series of pictures than by trying to memororize or organize your thought patterns by a rote memorization. This book shows you in full detail the various ways that you can create a mind map and how this can be helpful in all subjects. I am teaching my oldest daughter this concept in the hopes that she can remember the details of things that she has to memorize better if she can picture the picture in her mind.

This book uses vivid color images and clear examples to explain the theory and practice of Mind Mapping. I worked through the excercises sequentially and found that one task led into another nicely until I was Mind Mapping like a pro. I found the thorough explanation of the rationale underpinning the structure of Mind Maps helpful and interesting. I also enjoyed all of the different uses covered. I use Mind Mapping to write speeches, plan projects, plan my days, make decisions, communicate ideas, and learn and retain information. I plan to use Mind Mapping to design Websites. If you want a complete and beautiful treatment of Mind Mapping, this is the book.

This book is about mind map, a method to maximise the potential of our brain. This book contains many example, the book also have many easy instruction. This book tells us how to use mind map in different case, such as for study, for management, for diary, etc. This book is very great, it really can make me study faster and my grades increase. I would reccomend this book for secondary high school student to adult.