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Summary: THE BEST on MIND MAPPING !!!!
Review: I have bought 4 different books on mind mapping and i think this one is still the best one! FROM THE ORIGINATOR OF MIND MAPPING!!!Bough some more copies to give away to close friends! WHATEVER YOU ARE, BUY THIS ONE!!! One of the very2 FEW books that can CHANGE YOUR LIFE! tanadi santoso, surabaya-indonesia.
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Summary: Kind of an elementary book
Review: The author is trying hard to make sophisticated a very elementary techinque. A much clearer book on mindmapping is a book by Joyce Wycoff.
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Summary: Remarkable & powerful way to dramatically improve your life
Review: This is a remarkable technique, far superior to linear note taking. I've started using MindMapping for note taking and record keeping this year. Is is also a powerful tool for innovation and creativity. The results have been spectacular. I'm gathering a lot more information and remembering/understanding it much, much better. I could not return to traditional linear note taking now. (Even though my life was threatened for attempting to MindMap a meeting.) There is also software for mindmapping called MindMan , which I have found useful (after MindMapping on paper first). My company has also found MindMapping a powerful training tool. I strongly recommend this book.
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Summary: An Excellent Text on a Powerful Tool
Review: The Buzan brothers present this powerful technique clearly and with plenty of examples. One gets the correct impression that mindmaps can be used in many different ways: personal planning, note taking, presentations, group discussions. Finding the layout a bit unusual, I give the book an 8. It's first-rate content is well worth the puchase.
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Summary: Good tools for organizing your thoughts
Review: Although perhaps overstating the "radiant thinking" idea, the Buzans' book provides a helpful way to organize one's thoughts or notes and to review or learn just about anything. The only reason I didn't rate this book higher, despite its wonderful graphics and helpful instructions, is that it gets very repetitive and almost "preachy" about this methodology. It does give you everything you need (except practice, which you'll have to supply for yourself) to learn to create your own mind maps. This is a good thing. Another book to read that compliments this one is Writing the Natural Way, by Gabriele Lusser Rico. She provides a similar method for organizing one's thinking called "clustering." A combination of the two methods has served me well for a variety of planning and note-taking uses.
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Summary: A great way to organize and retain information visually
Review: If you are someone who "doodles" or sketches a lot, then this book will be invaluable for you. Tony and Barry Buzan first lay down the foundations for "visual memory" and then teach you how to use this type of memory in order to create "Mind Maps" to learn, synthesize and retain information. This book is extremely well organized and beautifully illustrated. There are numerous "Mind Maps" included to clearly illustrate concepts covered in each chapter. There are also photographs from nature and photomicroscopy which serve to illustrate that nature uses these structures too!
By applying the concepts put forth in this book and accomplishing the exercises, the reader is left with a "toolbox" of techniques which greatly facilitate the reader's ability to organize, synthesize and retain information.
I've been dealing with some extremely technical concepts for close to ten years now, never with a great deal of success or clarity. By using the techniques in this book, I was able to organize the information in a way which suddenly made it crystal clear! In addition, the "Mind Maps" I made enable me to review the material in just a few seconds.
I believe this book will be invaluable for those people who process information visually. I'm sure it would be valuable for other information processing "modalities" too. The only reason why I gave the book an 8 rating is that I have found it less useful for those individuals who do not process information in a visual mode.
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Summary: Great Ideas But Presented Very Badly...............
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God,I never came accross such a horrible book in my entire life.What a Disaster?I snoozed while reading It.It was Boring. Though I find ideas presented hear very intresting.They are very useful. But author didnt presented them very well. Mind Mapping technique is revolution.But author was more itrestwed in selling his pads,Videos & other books in the series.
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Summary: Mind Mapping
Review: I can see the great attraction of mind mapping as a learning or teaching technique for brainstorming, decision making, classifiying or summarising information, etc. but book left me unconvinced that mind mapping - without becoming very "messy" and overcrowded - superior to readable and well-organised notes on complex subjects. Seems to me that booked has been over-hyped.
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Summary: Spreading Mind Myths
Review: People want to learn and know how to learn. This book takes a leap backwards into hippy mythology. Please do not quote any parts of this book to somebody who understands science or learning. They will laugh at you.
In the book the author promotes the 99% unused potential myth, and claiming that it is science. He also promotes the left/right brain myth which generally leads to dubious practices such as mind control, superstition (psychic abilities) etc and using these to backup mind mapping as a "creativity" technique. Mind mapping is no more creative than writing things normally.
He even states that structured, linear or list noting put people into a SEMI-HYPNOTIC TRANCE. Really, if you quote this kind of thing to anyone to explain why you are using a multicoloured scratchpad, or doing alternate nostril breathing, you're going to look a bit of a flake.
Its a big thick tome devoted to promotion of a single kneejerk technique (a bad idea as a learning habit). I'd say you would do better with a book on note taking that gives an accurate picture of what we really know about the brain (after the 1970s) and promotes the appropriate application of techiques to suit the goal. Or you could swallow this book whole and kneejerk yourself into the gurubabbling mindmap cult.
Take care
Victoria Bond
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Summary: Mind Maps Dramaticallly Enhance Executive Coaching
Review: No more sorting through pages and pages of boring, linear notes looking for that one piece of vital information I urgently need. As an executive coach, Mind Maps enable me to quickly record associated and related customer 'stories' and 'problems' in a structured way. I see key customer needs at a glance, flag the follow up items, and organize for subsequent sessions all on ONE page! I rarely miss a client-deliverable and my clients are amazed at how much information I process accurately and efficiently.
My clients gain insight into themselves, manage massive amounts of business information , and write provocative speeches all using Mind Maps.
One client used Mind Maps to illustrate her need for additional staff despite a company-wide hiring freeze. She built an irrefutable business case for additional resources mapping all the competing priorities for her time. One glance at the Map, and her manager approved the staffing request on the spot!
Mind Maps save time, improve efficiences and just plain work. As President of RHessAssociates,I'd be lost without Maps. I use them for strategic planning, brainstorming and executive coaching. Hats off to Tony and Barry Buzan for making time to write the Mind Map Book! It is by far the best productivity tool I've found in over 18 years in business.
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