Product Description

This book is the definitive guide to Mind Mapping. Tony Buzan has changed the lives of millions with "Mind Maps", his revolutionary system of note-taking that will help you excel in every area of your life. This practical full-colour book shows how this incredible thinking tool works and how you can use it to achieve your full potential. The "Ultimate Book of Mind Maps" will help you: come up with brilliant ideas, find inspired solutions to any problem, create more time for yourself, set goals and achieve them, motivate yourself and others, and remember anything you want when you want colour illustrated throughout. This definitive guide is packed full of examples of amazing thinking tools and practical Mind Map examples, including running a meeting, preparing for an interview, starting up a new venture, planning family events, shopping for gifts, designing a garden, getting fit, and writing a speech for a wedding. It can even help you plan your ideal future!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #41144 in Books
• Published on: 2006-01-03
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

Review
'One of the world's leading thinkers ! his brain-storming techniques have boosted the confidence and ability of his followers around the world.' DAILY MAIL 'Tony Buzan is Mr Memory ! endorsed by government ministers, Mensa brainiacs and MDs alike.' METRO 'The whole world should Mind Map.' THE EXPRESS 'Tony Buzan will do for the brain what Stephen Hawking did for the universe.' THE TIMES 'The biggest name in memory' THE NEW YORKER

About the Author
Tony Buzan is the author of the bestsellers Mind Map books. He lectures all over the world and is published in 100 countries and 30 languages. He advises multinational companies (among them HSBC, Oracle, Barclays International and Hewlett-Packard), governments, leading businesses, educational authorities and international Olympic athletes.

Customer Reviews

Great insights into why mind maps are useful and how to use them
Tony and his colleagues have created a great book about his process or technique called mind mapping. The books justifies why this technique is valuable, mapping the reasons right back to the design of our brains. He uses maps, thank goodness to explain his reasonsing. Going in the other direction, his artists have shown very vividly how the technique can be used in a wide variety of business and personal situations.

I use this book to inspire others about mind mapping. Very few people will achieve the artistic quality shown in the book but those that are inspired by mind mapping will certainly develop maps with greater and more valuable (to them) content than those in the book.

As a Mindjet MindManager user, trainer and consultant, this book is a valuable asset which I carry with me to my events. I use it to show the inspiration behind MindManager, an incredible business information mapping tool. If, it was not for Tony Buzan inspring Mike Jetter, who created MindManager, I would not have enjoyed myself so much at work and elsewhere. Eleven years ago, I sat next to a mind mapper at a major conference in London. Which encouraged me to read Tony's first book "Use Your Head" and mind map my way back from Rotterdam to Swindon to start a new job!

Comparing "Use Your Head" to the "Ultimate Book of Mind Maps" is like comparing chalk and cheese. The former (although excellent in isolation) is dry, mostly white (there are six colour pages) and hard to digest. The latter is colourful, juicy, easy to read but can be a bit like overeating at your favourite Indian restaurant. Everything looks, tastes and smells so good, you order too much. You eat it and then take several days to recover but don't regret it. Also your friends and colleagues will know where you ate the night before because you are going to talk about it!

Thank you Tony for a great book and my tool of first choice.

Not much about mindmaps
Despite the title, this book is unfortunately not much about mindmaps and certainly not ultimate. The content is concerned with a healthy life and good habits for learning - if you want to get detailed knowledge about mindmapping, it's not very helpful. This book might be useful for children and highschool-students, but is in no way academic.

Try instead the book that Tony and Barry Buzan wrote together on mindmaps.