Use Both Sides of Your Brain : New Mind-Mapping Techniques, Third Edition

by Buzan, Tony

• ISBN13: 9780452266032
• ISBN10: 0452266033
• Additional ISBN(s): 9780525474364, 9780525480112, 9780525482291, 9780525485582
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1991-01-01
• Publisher: Plume
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Summary

Using the latest research on the workings of the human brain, Buzan provides step-by-step exercises for discovering the powers of the right side of the brain and learning to use the left side more effectively. By increasing our understanding of how the mind works, Buzan shows us how to use our brains to the best advantage.

Author Biography

Tony Buzan is the author of the international bestseller The Mind Map Book. He lectures worldwide and is published in one  hundred countries and in thirty languages. He advises multinational companies like HSBC, Oracle, Barclays International, and Hewlett-Packard; governments, leading businesses, educational groups, and international Olympic athletes.

Table of Contents

Introduction	9	(2)
A Use Both Sides of Your Brain tale: an impossible dream --- the Edward Hughes story	11	(4)
Your mind is better than you think	15	(16)
Man's understanding of his own mind	15	(2)
More than one brain	17	(3)
Interconnections of the brain's neurons	20	(4)
Models of perception: eye--brain--camera	24	(1)
The hologram as a model for the brain	25	(1)
IQ and our brilliance	26	(1)
The human baby -- a model of excellence	27	(4)
How the human brain has been reined in	31	(4)
Why performance does not match potential	31	(1)
'Only human'!	32	(1)
The Operations Manual for the Brain	33	(2)
Reading faster and more efficiently	35	(16)
Reading problems	35	(2)
Reading defined	37	(1)
Why reading problems exist	38	(2)
Reading eye movements	40	(2)
Advantages of faster reading	42	(1)
Myths about reading	43	(1)
Advanced reading techniques	43	(3)
Motivational practice	46	(1)
Metronome training	47	(4)
Memory	51	(26)
Questions on memory	51	(8)
Recall during learning	59	(4)
Recall after learning	63	(1)
Memory -- review techniques and theory	64	(3)
Special memory systems and mnemonics	67	(3)
'Smashin' scope' of memory	70	(2)
The Number-Rhyme System	72	(2)
The 'impossible' task	74	(3)
Mind Maps -- introduction	77	(12)
Exercise and discussion--Kusa-Hibari	77	(5)
Key Words -- Recall and creative	82	(2)
Multi-ordinate nature of words	84	(1)
Key Word versus standard notes	85	(4)
Mind Maps -- the laws	89	(16)
Exercise -- Space travel	89	(1)
Linear history of speech and print	90	(3)
Your brain and Mind Mapping	93	(2)
Mind Mapping laws	95	(10)
Colour Plate Section	96	(9)
Mind Maps -- advanced methods and uses	105	(6)
Advanced Mind Maps	105	(1)
Mind Maps and the left and right cortex	106	(1)
Mind Maps -- uses	107	(1)
Mind Mapping for speeches and articles	107	(1)
Mind Mapping for lectures	108	(1)
Mind Mapping for meetings	108	(3)
The Mind Map Organic Study Technique	111	(28)
The Reluctant Learner	111	(2)
The study book as a threat	113	(3)
Old and new study techniques	116	(3)
Preparation	118	(1)
The browse	119	(1)
Time and amount	119	(3)
Mind Map of knowledge on the subject	122	(1)
Asking questions and defining goals	123	(2)
Application	125	(1)
Study overview	125	(3)
Preview	128	(2)
Inview	130	(2)
Review	132	(1)
Text notes and Mind Mapping	132	(2)
Continuing review	134	(1)
Summary: Mind Map Organic Study Technique	135	(4)
Directions	139	(4)
What a difference fifteen years can make	139	(1)
Review, mental ability and age	139	(4)
Appendix	143	(8)
Bibliography	151	(2)
Index	153