Tony Buzan - Ultimate Book of Mind Maps

Chapter One

What Is a Mind Map?

Chapter Two

Know Your Brain, Unlock Your Potential

Chapter Three

The Ultimate Success Formula

Chapter Four

Mind Workouts for Mental Success

Chapter Five

Physical Fitness for Mental Power

Chapter Six

Mind Maps for Everyday Success

If you have answered yes to any of these questions, then you have the right book in your hands! Mind Maps are a unique thinking tool that will bring out your natural genius and enable you to shine in every area of your life. The Ultimate Book of Mind Maps is the definitive guide to using this remarkable tool.

, What is a Mind Map? , introduces you to Mind Maps and how they work. It explains the basic Mind Map rules and takes you step-by-step through your first Mind Map.

, Know Your Brain, Unlock Your Potential , digs deeper into the reasons why Mind Maps work and how they actually help your brain learn and think creatively. The better you understand your brain and how it works, the easier it is for you to help it perform to its best.

, The Ultimate Success Formula , looks at learning how to learn. It gives you a foolproof formula for learning and success that you can use in combination with Mind Maps. With the TEFCAS success formula and Mind Maps youll always succeed!

, Mind Workouts for Mental Success , delves into the world of creativity and shows you how Mind Maps are the ideal tool for quality creative thinking. It also looks at how strong creative skills help your ability to remember things with ease, and gives you important memory principles that you can use with Mind Maps.

, Physical Fitness for Mental Power , highlights the importance of physical fitness for mental fitness. It looks at optimal ways of getting the right balance of exercise, sleep, and quality nutrition, and shows you how Mind Maps can help you achieve this balance.

Finally, , Mind Maps for Everyday Success , shows you just some of the infinite ways you can use Mind Maps in the workplace, socially, and in your general life planning. Use the Mind Map examples in this chapter to inspire you and your fabulous imagination, and you can be sure you will demonstrate your brilliance in everything you do.

Mind Maps wonderfully and dramatically changed my life for the better. I know that they will do the same for you, too.

Be prepared to be amazed by yourself!

Overview of Chapter 1:

A Mind Map is the ultimate organizational thinking tool the Swiss army knife of the brain!

A Mind Map is the easiest way to put information into your brain and to take information out of your brain its a creative and effective means of note-taking that literally maps out your thoughts. And it is so simple.

You can compare a Mind Map to a map of a city. The centre of your Mind Map is like the centre of the city. It represents your most important idea. The main roads leading from the centre represent the main thoughts in your thinking process; the secondary roads represent your secondary thoughts, and so on. Special images or shapes can represent sites of interest or particularly interesting ideas.

Compare a Mind Map to a map of a city

Just like a road map, a Mind Map will:

Give an overview of a large subject or area.

Enable you to plan routes or to make choices, and will let you know where you are going and where you have been.

Gather together large amounts of data in one place.

Encourage problem solving by allowing you to see new creative pathways.

Be enjoyable to look at, read, muse over, and remember.

Mind Maps are also brilliant route-maps for the memory, allowing you to organize facts and thoughts in such a way that your brains natural way of working is engaged right from the start. This means that remembering and recalling information later is far easier and more reliable than when using traditional note-taking techniques.

All Mind Maps have some things in common. They all use colour. They all have a natural structure that radiates from the centre. And they all use curved lines, symbols, words, and images according to a set of simple, basic, natural, and brain-friendly rules. With a Mind Map, a long list of boring information can be turned into a colourful, highly organized, memorable diagram that works in line with your brains natural way of doing things.