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 --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Synopsis
This manual on how to use the human brain has been translated into more than 20 languages. It presents a range of techniques that are all designed to teach the reader how to think effectively.

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