“Use Your Head: How to unleash the power of your mind”, by Tony Buzan, 2010
CONTENTS:
Appreciation 7
Our Millennial Birthday 9
Introduction 11
1 A Use Your Head Tale: an Impossible Dream –
the Edward Hughes Story 15
2 Your Brain is Better Than You Think 20
Man’s Understanding of His Own Mind 20
More Than One Brain 22
Interconnections of the Brain’s ‘Little Grey Cells’ 25
Models of Perception: Eye – Brain – Camera 28
The Hologram as a Model for the Brain 28
IQ and Your Natural Brilliance 30
The Human Baby – a Model of Excellence 31
3 How the Human Brain has been Reined In 34
Why Performance Does Not Match Potential 34
‘Only Human’! 35
The Operations Manual for the Brain 37
4 Reading Faster and More Efficiently 38
Reading Problems 38
Reading Defined 40
Why Reading Problems Exist 41
Reading Eye Movements 43
Advantages of Faster Reading 46
False Beliefs About Reading 46
Advanced Reading Techniques – Faster and Faster 47
Motivational Practice 50
Metronome Training 51
5 Memory 54
Questions on Memory 54
Test Responses and Further Questions 59
Recall During Learning 62
Recall After Learning 66
Memory – Review Techniques and Theory 67
Special Memory Systems and Mnemonics 70
‘SMASHIN’ SCOPE’ of Memory 73
The Number-Rhyme System 75
The ‘Impossible’ Task 77
6 Mind Maps® – an Introduction to the Nature
of Words and Thought 80
Exercise and Discussion – Kusa-Hibari 80
Key Words – Recall and Creative 86
Multi-ordinate Nature of Words 87
Key Word/Mind Maps Versus Standard Notes 88
7 Mind Maps® – the Natural Laws 92
Exercise – Space Travel 92
Linear History of Speech and Print 93
Your Brain and Mind Mapping 96
Mind Mapping Laws 98
8 Mind Maps® – Advanced Methods and Uses 107
Advanced Mind Maps 107
Mind Maps and the Left and Right Cortex 109
Mind Maps – Uses 109
Mind Mapping for Lectures 109
Mind Mapping for Meetings 110
Mind Mapping for Speeches and Articles 111
9 The Mind Map Organic Study Technique
(MMOST) 114
The Reluctant Learner 114
The Study Book as a Threat 116
Old and New Study Techniques 119
MMOST 121
MMOST: Preparation 122
MMOST: Application 128
Summary: MMOST 138
10 New Directions 141
What a Difference a Quarter of a Century Can Make 141
Review, Mental Ability and Age 142
Afterword 145
Personal Notes and Applications 147
Bibliography 155
Index 157
FROM THE BOOK
The Chapters
Each chapter deals with a different aspect of your brain’s functioning.
First the book outlines the most up-to-date information about the
brain and then applies this information to the way in which your
vision can be best used.
The fifth chapter explains how you can improve memory’ both
during and after learning. In addition a special system is introduced
for the perfect memorisation of listed items.
The middle chapters explore your mind’s internal ‘maps’. This
information about how you think is applied to the way in which
you can use language, words, imagery and Mind Maps for recording,
organising, remembering, creative thinking and problem solving.
The ninth chapter deals with the new Mind Map Organic Study
Technique which will enable you to study any subject ranging
from English to Higher Mathematics, Philosophy to Languages.
The final chapter summarises the gigantic leaps made in the
last twenty-six years, gives a new perspective on the ageing brain
and leads you into new directions for the future.
In the colour section you will find Mind Maps which you are
advised to look at before and after reading each relevant chapterthey
serve as a preview/review summary.
In certain of the chapters, important key concepts are printed
in bold type to enable your easy reference in previewing and
reviewing.
Your Effort
It is essential that you practise if you wish to be able to use
effectively the methods and information outlined. At various stages
in the book are exercises and suggestions for further activity. In
addition you should work out your own practice and study
schedule, keeping to it as firmly as possible.
Personal Notes and Applications
At the end of each chapter and on pages 147-53 you will find pages
for ‘Personal Notes and Applications’. These are for any jottings
you might wish to make during reading and can also be used when
you discover further information and applications after you have
‘finished’ the book.
Bibliography
On pages 155-6 you will find a special list of books. These are not
just books of academic reference, but include books which will
help you develop your general knowledge as well as giving you
more specialised information concerning some of tire areas covered
in Use Your Head.
You and Yourself
Use Your Head is designed to help you to expand as an individual,
so that through an increasing awareness of yourself you will be
able to develop your own ways of thinking.
Each person using information from this book starts with
different levels of learning ability, and will progress at the pace best
suited to him. It is important therefore to measure improvement in
relation primarily to yourself.
Onword
Although much of the information has been presented in connection
with reading, formal noting and studying, the complete application is
much wider. When you have finished and reviewed the book,
browse through it again to see in which other areas of your life
the information can be helpfully applied.
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