Tony Buzan - The Mind Map is Born!
At last the puzzle was complete! All the human brain had to do, if it wanted to
recall what it is learning, in note form, was to:
- Obey the laws of Recall during Learning.
- Think more purely, like the child and the artist.
- Follow the ‘central star’ and networking principles of information theory and General
Semantics.
- Express itself in its own unique ‘mental imprint’.
Transferring all this information to a note-taking form naturally and inevitably
gives rise to Mind Maps. This is a staggeringly powerful graphic technique that
provides you a universal key to unlock the potential of your memory and of your
other thinking skills. The Mind Map can be applied to every aspect of your life
where improved memory, learning and clearer thinking will enhance your performance.
The Mind Map is simple to do, because it is a natural expression of the way your
memory and brain work. I will introduce to you the basic Mind Map Laws, show you
How 2 Mind Map, and give you examples in the gallery, in which, as you learn more
about your brain, you can demonstrate to yourself the power of the Mind Map as a
memory technique.
Right and Left Corroboration
Almost the moment Mind Maps had been ‘born’, another major piece of scientific research
confirmed their validity as a brain-compatible thinking method. In California, Dr.
Roger Sperry, who won the Nobel Prize for his research, had confirmed that the evolutionarily
latest part of the brain, the ‘thinking cap’ of the Cerebral Cortex, was divided
into two major hemispheres, and that those hemispheres performed a comprehensive
range of intellectual tasks. The tasks included the following:
- Logic
- Lines
- Number
- Word
- Lists
- Rhythm
- Colour
- Daydreaming
- Imagination
- Gestalt (seeing the whole picture)
Sperry’s own research, and that of the vast array of researchers who followed in
his footsteps (especially Professor Robert Ornstein) confirmed that the more these
activities were integrated, the more the brain’s performance became synergetic,
each different intellectual skill enhancing the performance in other intellectual
areas.
Research on the geniuses in all disciplines indicated that they were polymathic,
using the full range of their intelligence's to excel in at least one and often
many fields.
When you are Mind Mapping, you are not only practising and exercising your fundamental
memory powers and your information processing, networking and organising capabilities;
you are also using the entire range of your cortical skills, on the way to helping
you manifest your own genius!
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