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Usually ships in 1 business days | | | | | | Mind Mapping is a note taking system which allows you to take better, faster, and more efficient notes. In conventional note-taking, you write down information line by line. With Mind Maps, you organize the information more in the form of a diagram, starting with a central key idea drawn in the center of the paper.
In addition to enhancing your note taking skills, Mind Maps help you improve your studying, writing, presenting, brainstorming, and creative skills. It is one of the best note taking skills anyone can learn. | | | |
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27 of 29 found the following review helpful:
 good tool, great resource Jan 23, 2011
By Adrian Aziyu
"AA"
Mind Maps is the preferred method of your brain to take in new information. Mind Maps is a great tool, I recommend it.
I like this book as it explains why mind maps are so effective. Once you get that, you'll get how mind maps works and to use it successfully. There are many ways to do mind maps and you'll learn that with variations.
One thing that turned me off initially about this book it is not as long as other Mind Map books. But you'll find it has just as much knowledge as other books but condensed. There is not a long introduction stories of the author's life and people and their feelings and other stuff. You get to the point and center of mind maps and different practices.
16 of 16 found the following review helpful:
Excellent book makes mind mapping easy Feb 09, 2011
By Natasha Papousek
"freelance artist"
This book is like the mind mapping it describes: a concise and simplified way of approaching complex information. After a quick overview of the concept of mind-mapping and the people who developed and popularized the method, this book jumps right into how to make your own mind maps. Several techniques are outlined and links to software packages are included. Once you have learned how to make a mind map, you are guided through a plethora of possibilities for using them.
So far I've used the technique to organize notes from my last class and it really helped me absorb the key information. I used a mind-map to plan my day and was amazed at how easy it was to prioritize tasks and list all the sub-tasks in a logical manner. Next, I used it to improve my reading comprehension of a technical book that I'm reading and was surprised at how little time it took to summarize each chapter -- and how the book is becoming easier to read now that my mind is focused on classifying key concepts in a visual way.
I highly recommend this book and mind-mapping!
14 of 15 found the following review helpful:
great tool, great book Jan 29, 2011
By hopkinsanator
This book introduces an interesting concept called mind maps that makes it easy to understand all the information coming at you by organizing it better. It explains how to grasp important information and ideas in a simple yet detailed way.
I have used it for both school and work and it helps me out tremendously. For school, mind maps will be helpful not only in note taking it will help in other areas such as studying and writing great essays. I am no longer in school I do sales and mind maps is great for me. It organizes my thoughts and notes for presentations it makes it SOOOO much easier to explain things....think of how flow charts make it easier to understand processes mind maps help you do that with all kinds of information.
9 of 9 found the following review helpful:
Forget linear notetaking; learn how and why mind-mapping works Aug 02, 2011
By Alex Diaz-Granados
"fardreaming writer"
When I was a student in middle school, high school and college, I used to be a horrible note-taker. My penmanship was not the best and I tended to try to cram as much information as I possibly could into my barely legible but traditionally linear notes, so I would also lag behind most of my peers in class. Eventually, I resorted to asking classmates to use carbon paper and make duplicate sets of notes for me, but even the quality of the data I had to assimilate was heavily dependent on others' note-taking skills.
Today's students - and everyone else, for that matter - have to navigate through virtual seas of information in order to thrive at school, work or even in creative endeavors. So much data and creative inspiration is at our fingertips in books, mass media and the digital universe of the Internet that traditional note-taking, which relies on "tried and true" linear methodology, can't really help us handle efficiently.
Had I known about the concept and practice of mind mapping back when I was in high school, perhaps I would have processed information in a more intuitive and natural fashion, which is one of the key concepts in Michael Taylor's Quicker Notes, Better Memory, and Improved Learning with Mind Maps.
In reading Taylor's six-chapter book, I have learned that though mind mapping might seem like a new innovation, it has been practiced in some form or another since the Greek Golden Age and the Roman era, when philosophers such as Simonedes of Ceos and Porphyry of Tyre used early methods of using graphic charts to create and organize ideas in hierarchical formats which were based on mental imagery and word/noun association.
In essence, mind mapping is a form of jotting down the main idea of a book, article, lecture, presentation, movie or any form of informational or creative project, along with supporting concepts in a graphic fashion which uses different shapes and flow lines in a way that mimics the way the brain cells are all interconnected. As a result, mind-mapping work very much like the brain itself does when it processes data. In a mind map one idea links itself to others in a more intuitive fashion than in traditional written note-taking.
Quicker Notes, Better Memory, and Improved Learning with Mind Maps doesn't merely discuss the origins and basics of mind mapping; it gives readers all they need to know on how to create a mind map, what benefits (and drawbacks) the hierarchical charts offer, and makes a persuasive argument that the use of mind maps helps us digest and process data more efficiently, improve our memories and vastly enhance our capacity to create and be more productive.
9 of 9 found the following review helpful:
 Worth a Try Jul 26, 2011
By J Vinluan
This is a very good book on the subject of Mind Maps. I like what one of the previous reviewer said, that this book takes an unfamiliar topic to most and makes it intuitive....which is an art.
If I was learning or looking for easier ways to apply mind maps, I would give this book 5 stars as it does a great job of introducing the concept, explaining its importance, and showing readers effective ways to use and apply it in different areas of their lives. It does this all in a quick, concise, and straightforward manner.
Though I advocate the book I give it 3 stars b/c I am an avid Mind Maps user and was hoping it would take my skill to the next level. In many ways it did, in some it fell short.
Nonetheless, still a good read, worth giving it a try. If other books have not worked for you or you're new to the topic, you want to start here.
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