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TONY BUZAN MIND MAPPING
History and Philosophy

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.

KEY FEATURES

Mind Mapping starts in the center of the page with the main idea, and works outward in all directions by drawing several branches from the main idea. For example, House and the rooms from the house and then more advanced from there you would take the features in that specific room. For example Kitchen, fridge, cupboards, rubbish bin. You must assign a key word to each branch going in different directions, which from there should further branch out to new words and images and branch and further and further. Colours are important on Mind Mapping as it helps the brain to remember the information. Colour coding each different category and illustrating them with pictures. the importance of limiting each branch to one word, more associates between words and the concept are easily remember.The lines need to be curved and jaggered as this relates to the structure as it relates to how the brain thinks. If the lines are straight and rigid it is boring and hard to recal the information. The length of the word should depend on the length of the line.