Table of Contents
Our 21st Birthday
Introduction
A Use Your Head tale: an impossible dream--the Edward Hughes story.
Your Mind is better than you think.
* Man's understanding of his own mind
* More than one brain
* Interconnections of the brain's "little grey cells"
* Models of perception: eye--brain--camera
* The hologram as a model for the brain
* IQ and your natural brilliance
* The human baby--a model of excellence
How the human brain has been reined in
* Why performance does not match potential
* "Only human!"
* The operations manual for the brain
Reading faster and more efficiently
* Reading problems
* Reading defined
* Why reading problems exist
* Reading eye movements
* Advantages of faster reading
* False beliefs about reading
* Advanced reading techniques--faster and faster
* Motivational practice
* Metronome training
Memory
* Questions on Memory
* Test responses and further questions
* Recall during learning
* Recall after learning
* Memory--review techniques and theory
* Special memory systems and mnemonics
* "Smashin' scope" of memory
* Teh Number-Rhyme System
* The "impossible" task
Mind Maps--an introduction to the nature of words and thought
* Exercise and discussion--Kusa-Hibari
* Key Words--Recall and creative
* Multi-ordinate nature of words
* Key Word versus standard notes
Mind Maps--the natural laws
* Exercise--Space travel
* Linear history of speech and print
* Your brain and Mind Mapping
* Mind Mapping laws
Colour Plate Selection
Mind Maps--advanced methods and uses
* Advanced Mind Maps
* Mind Maps and the left and right hand cortex
* Mind Maps--uses
* Mind Mapping for speeches and articles
* Mind Mapping for lectures
* Mind Mapping for meetings
The Mind Map Organic Study Technique (MMOST)
* The Reluctant Learner
* The study book as a threat
* Old and new study techniques
* MMOST
* MMOST: preparation
* MMOST: application
* Summary: MMOST
Directions
* What a difference 21 years can make
* Review, mental ability and age
Afterword
Appendix
Bibliography
Index
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About the Author
Tony Buzan is the worlds leading authority on the brain and learning. His ground-breaking note-taking technique, Mind Maps, offers a route to improved study and better understanding. His million-copy selling books on the subject have achieved massive success in more than 100 countries and have been translated into 30 languages. He has lectures worldwide and acts as advisor to numerous multi-national companies, governments, leading businesses and international Olympic athletes. He is also President of the Brain Foundation, founder of the Brian Trust Charity, the World Memory Championships and the World Championships of the Brain.
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