How to Mind Map: Make the Most of Your Mind and Learn to Create, Organize and Plan (Hardcover)

by Tony Buzan (Author)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description
This practical, mini-guide teaches you quick-fire methods that will have you creating Mind Maps in minutes, to maximize your brainpower and improve your creativity.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 128 pages
• Publisher: Thorsons; US Only Ed edition (February 25, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0007153732
• ISBN-13: 978-0007153732
• Product Dimensions: 6.3 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #64,005 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Customer Reviews

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44 of 52 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not Necessary, February 1, 2003

By A Customer

The information in this book can be obtained online, and the preaching you can live without. Mind mapping is pretty intuitive. Once you see one you will say "I get it" and start using them. There is simply not enough information to go on and on about them in multiple books. I thought maybe I was missing something. Now I feel like I was snookered into paying for someone's info-mercial. The basic idea is good, and the binding is cute.

10 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Hype and nonsense, April 26, 2005

By	JVogel "JVogel" (US) - See all my reviews

This book is wrong about the brain, and is wrong to hype mind mapping into every task in the universe. The left/right brain info is just myth, the 1% brain use stuff is just myth. The newer stuff on multiple intelligences is just rhetoric (he keeps adding intelligences as he goes along, blowing with the wind).

People have been using graphic organizers for centuries. Tony Buzan only originated the hype. Here is similar hype that led to some litigation (by a different author).

http://www.quackwatch.org/02ConsumerProtection/FTCActions/trudeau.html

Best to stick with learning/communication methods that actually are appropriate for the task.

JVogel

17 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect Gift for An Open Mind, May 30, 2003

By	Mediaflow (Hoboken, NJ, USA) - See all my reviews

Mind mapping is a powerful tool. It has helped me in many ways, remembering material for exams, planning for future, preparing for presentation, or more. I do agree with the previous reviewer that most of the material on this book can be found on internet. I have downloaded much info for mind map myself. But which book is so original that you cannot find any piece (concrete of conceptional) of it from internet? Besides, excellently edited/organized color pages, like children's books, are always pleasant, isn't it?

To promote the tool of mind map, a tiny book like this is an excellent gift idea. How many of you have friends who do not use internet? How many of you have friends who use internet, but cannot find the information he/she needs? How many of you have friends who simply do not believe what they see on the screen? How many of you read electric-shock-proof material in bathroom? How many of you want to give a gift that can ultimately change the recipient's life? This is it!!!

You can carry it to work, baseball games, or picnic. This book can easily slip into your pocket and provide good reference to the methodology of mind map when needed. This book can also serve as an anchor on your book shelf to remind you constantly the value of mind map. I cannot see the reason why you should not have it as a gift...even if you know this method by heart like I do...

Give this book to family members, co-workers, students, relatives, and any one you care about. The mind map methodology may be the one thing they need today to suceed!