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 Excellent book March 31, 2000
This is one of the best books around about memory and mind mapping. I have reread the book many times and not found anything better about this subject.
 Usefule techniques, difficult to read February 8, 2000
The subject of mind maps and their use is covered in great detail. I found the style of the book a bit sensationalist, and it tends to labour the points beyond what is neccessary. Though I will probably use the techniques, I won't re-read the book.
Usefule techniques, difficult to read February 8, 2000
The subject of mind maps and their use is covered in great detail. I found the style of the book a bit sensationalist, and it tends to labour the points beyond what is neccessary. Though I will probably use the techniques, I won't re-read the book.
 An easy read, mindmapping 101 January 31, 2000
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is a good first step, basic introduction, very easy entry into the technique of mindmapping. The book is accessible, lots of illustrations demonstrating branching and radial patterns in nature, and pictures of other peoples mind-maps. The text is not too wordy, but tends to the repetitive, you can skim a lot of the chapters, would have liked to see more emphasis on lecture note taking. The most important thing is to do the exercises, and apply the techniques on the job. I now use it every day, particularly for lectures but also for work related planning tasks, although I haven't made the connection between mindmapping and software design using the UML yet.
ADJUSTING THE RATING, THOUGH ACKNOWLEDGING THE TECHNIQUE January 18, 2000
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
since the first review was obviously written by someone who benefits from the sales of this book, i take one star off my rating of it to compensate.mind mapping is most likely a well-structured and effective way of remembering and taking notes, however i'm sure it would be possible to write a better book about it than mr buzan has done. it's a little to "kindergardenish", and mr buzan tries to resell his idea of how brilliant mind mapping is on each and every page of the book. simply too many exclamation marks everywhere! so, if you're not scared away by the infantile way of writing, go ahead and learn mind-mapping and benefit from it.
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