Buzan Tony - Modern Mind Mapping for Smarter Thinking

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First edition published in 2013.

2013 Tony Buzan, ThinkBuzan Ltd

ISBN 978-1-908934-09-3

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To all those Mind Mappers, from the present to the future, who produce the flowers of intelligence: - Mind Maps.

Known to millions as the inventor of Mind Mapping, Tony Buzan has helped people around the globe to unlock their creativity, imporve their memory and boost their thinking skills. He is a prolific author and has written over 100 books on the brain and thinking, translated into 33 languages in over 150 countries.

Lecturing around the world to schools, universities, corporations and governments, Tony has been the instrumental driving force behind global mental literacy.

Tony is the founder of the World Memory Championships, World Speed Reading Championships and The Brain Trust Charity and in 2008, he was honoured to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Creativity Association (ACA).

In this completely new work, Tony reveals how a simple understanding of memory and its imporvement can instantly and dramatically change our lives and the lives of those around us.

Flowers of Intelligence

332,000,000!

467,000,000!

As I was writing this Introduction I scanned the internet for two modern statistics concerning Mind Maps.

332,000,000 was the internet result for the number of word-based Mind Map hits.

467,000,000 is the number of Mind Map images on the internet.

These astonishing, impressive and encouraging stats shine a light on the global mental state in this modern world.

Only a few years ago, the number of Mind Map images electronically available was a mere few thousand. In earlier years, Mind Maps were generally considered a form of good notes, now, increasingly, Mind Maps are thought of as flowers of intelligence.

The book in your hands will help you nourish your own mind skills and your own Mind Maps, populating the field with many additional blooms of your own flowering intelligence. As you will discover, Modern Mind Mapping for Smarter Thinking will naturally enhance your intelligence. You will be smarter.

Mind Maps Multi-gym equipment for the Mind

This book brings the Mind Map into the modern age with a bang and tells you all you need to know about this topical wholebrain learning technology [Paul McKenna, 2012]. Immediately from the starting blocks of the first chapters in the book, your comprehensive cortical thinking skills will be refined and integrated more explosively and synergistically.

Your natural, organic thinking skill is revealed in this book as a star of thinking: your natural radiant thinking. You will also discover how the boosting of your brain power incorporates your multiple intelligences; and how the modern Mind Map uses both and improves all your multiple intelligences.

The Mind Map is a multi-faceted training device like a multi-gym machine for physical work outs. As multi-gym equipment will develop every muscle in your physical body, so Mind Maps develop each and every mental muscle of your mind.

You may even daydream about this ideal positive future, perhaps thinking that daydreaming is not really a good activity. You will soon realise, however, that daydreaming can guide you towards success if you can lasso it - like lassoing a stampeding buffalo.

And how do you lasso this stampeding daydream? With the multiple extension lasso/bolas-style image-capturing tool, the Mind Map!

As this book reveals, the proper use of a Mind Map guides your brain away from the misconception that the brain is a problem solving device, toward the more valid truth of the brain as a solution finder a Success Mechanism.

Having learnt the above, you will already be a lot smarter. You are well on the way to being a modern thinker and a modern Mind Mapper.

To build your intelligence even further, you will now be introduced to a modern mindset that makes you stronger.

You will learn how to hone the elements of the Modern Mind Map, including harnessing ten USPs to create more accurate, up to date, current and therefore more modern Mind Maps with their unique selling points for helping you to become smarter.

This book introduces you to two main expressions of the Mind Map:

1. The hand drawn Mind Map;

2. The software Mind Map.

For forty years I have wanted to develop Mind Maps in the electronic universe. It appeared a simple task. In fact it took many years and a incredible team of brains to create the natural and organic computer software I had dreamed of.

Chris Griffiths and his team produced the iMindMap software that, unlike any other software, unleashed genius in a new, original and enlightening way.

As the growth of Mind Map awareness burgeons exponentially on our planet, the numbers of academic, educational, business and personal Mind Map case studies are accelerating. You will discover a number of these in this book which will strengthen your knowledge, your awareness and your application.

In the process of modern Mind Mapping you will journey beyond the industrial- and information-age thinking frameworks, to the real new age: the age of intelligence. You are, in this process, becoming truly a more ideal modern human being: a naturally expressive, truly intelligent individual!

Tony Buzan

Part 1: What are MindMaps and how do they boost your brainpower?

Chapter 1: Why Mind Maps will help you Think Smarter

Chapter 2: Whole brain thinking

Chapter 3: Radiant thinking

Chapter 4: You dont need a high IQ to Think Smarter!

Chapter 5: Daydreaming can help you become a Smarter Thinker

Chapter 6: Become mindful of your thinking - with GRASP

Chapter 7: Mind Mapping and the solution finder process

Use my updated and thoroughly modern Mind Mapping techniques to access all areas of a unique thinking and creativity tool - your brain. Once youve grasped the simple but stunning reasoning why I invented Mind Maps, how they help you think smarter, and then follow my simple rules and techniques to do it yourself, you will find yourself thinking faster, with infinitely more creative connections, and smarter still as you expand your capacity for learning and storing information.

In Part 1 I explain what Mind Maps are, why they are so relevant today, and why I was driven to invent them. I also show how they boost memory and connectivity of thought precisely because they reflect the way your brains neuron network fires up. I introduce the concepts of whole brain and radiant thinking to you and explore why and how doodling and daydreaming are as good for the brain as being mindful and in the zone are too. Chris Griffiths is going to introduce you to a simple but powerful thinking system -GRASP The Solution (GTS). Together, Mind Mapping and GTS will help you use your natural thinking abilities to your best advantage and enable you to be smarter in problem solving, studying and decision making.