Tony Buzan's Mind Mapping - The Ultimate Thinking Tool

The basic learning principles of Mind Mapping have been around for centuries, and have been used by some of the greatest creative genius' and most influential individuals in history such as Leonardo Da Vinci, Galileo Galilei, Richard Feynman, William Blake and Albert Einstein. However, the term 'Mind Mapping' was not founded until the 1960s by Tony Buzan, a psychologist and leading expert in areas of the brain such as learning and memory. Today millions of people around the world use Mind Mapping for a wide variety of actions ranging from simply becoming better planners or more confident public speakers, to aid problem solving on a much more substantial scale.

Tony Buzan states a Mind Map is the ultimate organizational thinking tool, it is the easiest way to put information into your brain and take information out of your brain. It's a creative and effective means of note taking that literally 'maps out' your thoughts. Mind Maps have a natural structure that radiates from the centre and use curved lines, symbols, words and images according to a set of natural and brain-friendly rules. A long list of boring information can be transformed into colorful, memorable, highly organized diagrams with Mind Mapping that reflect your brain's natural way of thinking and encourage synergetic thinking.

Linear note taking and list making is the worst way to encourage creativity and thinking as it locks the brain behind 'prison bars' that methodically disconnects one thought from another. Whilst Mind Mapping branches stem outwards to form another level of sub-branches that flow with your thoughts and ideas. The mind, although may already contain the knowledge or information, is usually highly disorganized and can have trouble retrieving the stored information when required. Mind Maps help you learn, organize and store information in a way that gives you access to your brain when and where you need it.