Use your head Book

I did really like this book, I really liked all of his books. To be honest, and this is quite amusing now that I think about it, I can't remember what was in this book - but I'm going to guess. In a way this is my review of all of Buzan's books - at one time or another I've read them all and they are fun.

Positives: The main thing to learn from Buzan is mind-mapping. Look, I don't care if this doesn't really work or does really work or whatever else it may or may not do. I find that as soon as I turn a page to landscape and start drawing up a mindmap my brain works quite differently and this has to be a good thing. Also it helps me remember stuff. I ought to do these much more regularly, and will now I've reminded myself, but they really are wonderful things and should be taught to everyone - not just people who are 'visual' but everyone.

Negatives: Buzan has this wonderful way of helping you memorise a list of ten items in order - in one of his other books he teaches you to memorise hundreds of items in order. This is all well and good, but after learning this remarkably simple method, I realised just how rarely one is called on to memorise lists of items in order. You know, count on one hand over a decade! But his explanation of the Roman Room is wonderful and it is good to know these things exist and that you could use them - even if you don't.

It does suffer from the self-help book "this book will change your life" problem a little, but much better than your standard self-help book.