How to Mind Map: The Thinking Tool That Will Change Your Life [Paperback]

Tony Buzan (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 21, 2002

A practical pocket guide that teaches you how to Mind Map with ease from Tony Buzan, the inventor of the Mind Map.

Mind Maps® are the ultimate thinking tool for maximizing your brainpower and radically improving your performance. Mind Mapping is a revolutionary system of planning and note taking that has changed the lives of millions of people all over the world.

How to Mind Map is THE definitive guide to Mind Maps brought to you by their inventor Tony Buzan. This practical pocket guide explains everything you need to know about Mind Maps and shows how they make it easy to:

Get started on and plan a project
• Think up brilliant ideas
• Remember things
• Save time.

Editorial Reviews

Review

'The whole world should Mind Map.'
THE EXPRESS

'Tony Buzan will do for the brain what Stephen Hawking did for the universe.'
THE TIMES

'If you put Buzan's theories to the test, you could find yourself memorizing pages from a phone book or becoming the brainiest person in the world.'
PC WORLD MAGAZINE

'More than a few serious minds out there are paying attention.'
INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE

From the Back Cover

Mind Maps are the ultimate thinking tool for maximising your brainpower and radically improving your performance. Mind Mapping is a revolutionary system of planning and note taking that has changed the lives of millions of people all over the world.

'How to Mind Map' is THE definitive guide to Mind Maps brought to you by their inventor Tony Buzan. This practical pocket guide explains everything you need to know about mind maps and shows how they make it easy to:
• Get started on and plan a project
• Think up brilliant ideas
• Remember things
• Save time

Tony Buzan is the author of the bestsellers 'Head First, Head Strong' and 'Use Your Head'. He lectures all over the world and is published in 100 countries and 30 languages. He advises international Olympic athletes, multi national companies, governments an leading businesses.

See all Editorial Reviews

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Thorsons; First Printing edition (October 21, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0007146841
• ISBN-13: 978-0007146840
• Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.3 x 6.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #71,176 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #60 in Books > Self-Help > Memory Improvement
  • #90 in Books > Health, Fitness & Dieting > Psychology & Counseling > Creativity & Genius

More About the Author

Tony Buzan is the world-renowned inventor of Mind Maps and the multi-million copy bestselling author of Head First, Head Strong and The Mind Map Book. He appears regularly on television and lectures all over the world. His work has been published in 100 countries and 30 languages.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

114 of 116 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars Good book despite hype October 31, 2005

By Jagadeesh K. Venugopal VINE™ VOICE

Format:Paperback

This is a good book. It covers mind mapping briefly. It could have been even more brief, but for the rather outlandish claims of its author. Tony Buzan is given to a lot of exaggeration. Shorn of the inflated claims, the book could well have been a small and effective booklet.

The subject of the book is worthy of learning and usage. Mind mapping offers a very easy technique that requires little more than color pens and paper (though rather expensive software is also available). The method is simple -- a central topic in the middle, followed by radiating branches denoting concepts, sub-concepts, and further conceptual breakdowns. Arranging information spatially rather than linearly as in to-do lists and written notes helps place each node of information in context, and also helps the brain "grok" the entire picture all at once.

One thing I find surprising about Buzan's book is -- why did he not mind-map his book itself? It would have been much easier to understand the concepts that way.

I would recommend that you purchase the book by Joyce Wycoff rather than this one. The former book contains some good examples of mind maps and its applications.

For those inclined to using software, FreeMind is an excellent freeware application that helps one create mind maps.

60 of 70 people found the following review helpful

1.0 out of 5 stars Not Necessary February 1, 2003

By A Customer

Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase

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.

11 of 13 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Learn Mind Mapping and Teach your Kids February 14, 2006

By Deborah Crawford VINE™ VOICE

Format:Paperback

I wish I'd known how to do this in college!

Mind Mapping is great tool with all sorts of uses and this book is short enough for anyone to learn how to do it. Like most "life-hack" type tools, you'll get out of it what you put into it. In other words, you have learn it and use it to get much benefit.

I do recommend it for kids--it's a great, simple way to organize most writing assignments, speeches, and other projects. They'll probably still have to do the old boring Roman numeral outlines, I suppose, but the mind-map can make that much easier, too!

So, Buzan's a bit grandiose--mind-mapping probably won't bring world peace, but hey, neither does anything else!