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- Use Your Head by Tony Buzan is totally worth a read and is how I learned mind mapping 22 years ago. I can still remember the rough layout and shape of many of the mind maps I made for GCSE and A-level revision. I’m 100% certain that reading that book and sticking to his methodologies added one or two letter grades to my exams at that age.
- I use mind maps all the time. They were instrumental in helping me pass GCSEs, A Levels, UnderGrad and parts of my PhD. Before I read the book (Tony Buzan, Use Your Head) I did OK in exams and school but nothing to write home about. With mind maps I went from a C to an A across the board.
Whats most amazing about them, for me, is that even after 7 years I can still remember good chunks of my A Level Physics and Electronics mind maps.
The key is to read the book and use them properly, most people use them as a glorified spider diagram (like this software). A good MM stays in your head for years and it's like feeling you way to the information rather than just brute forcing it from memory.
I highly recommend reading the book.
I have 2 MMs on the walls next to me. One for how we are going to get enough traffic to our site next winter and another detailing what we learnt last winter in general in the business.
- It's difficult to describe what I call "properly" without doing it a diservice but the original book is called "Use Your Head" by Tony Buzan and I would highly, highly recommend it. The first half doesn't really touch on mind mapping and is more on how memory works but that sets up for the mind mapping section and is just as (if not more) valuable.
It's an old book, I read my Mum's copy when I was 14 and it was hers from uni but it is great.
- I think meta-learning (i.e., learning how to learn) is a way too commonly overlooked subject. Unpopularity notwithstanding, there are some excellent books on the subject. What are some of your favorites?
Mine is probably Tony Buzan's "Use Your Head".
- While I agree that will power is based on your belief of your ability I cannot help but wonder of how effective it is to keep studying without breaks for memory retention and recall. If you read in "Use Your Head" by Tony Buzan there are graphs that show that the longer someone studies for the worse memory retention and recall becomes thus making it totally ineffective and pointless to exert the willpower to keep study for extended periods of time.
