Reviews for Use your head

The average rating for Use your head based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-02-23 00:00:00 Brad Simons Tony Buzan teaches the reader strategies to utilize the infinite powers of your mind. "I call it the 'operations manual' for your brain. It is designed to help you nurture your 'super-biocomputer' and unleash the natural and extraordinary range of mental skills that you possess. pg xii I've read a lot of non-fiction books about what the potentials of the mind and positive thinking are. This book gives more than just information about what could be, it shares tools for expanding your creative skills and organizing what goes in and comes out of our mind. "No man yet exists or has existed who has even approached using his full brain. We accept no limitations on the power of the brain ' it is limitless." pg 24 Buzan shares the keys for maximizing your memory ' imagination and association. By combining images with simple rhymes, he's created a surprisingly easy way to remember lists and, potentially, large sections of information. I was intrigued by his method of organizing information and study materials with the use of "mind maps." Basically, you start with a topic and draw branches coming out from this main theme, that relate to the information in some way. Continue to branch out, using colors and shapes to stimulate your brain while drawing conscious connections between the ideas on the paper. It's a fun little creative exercise, but also it helps you see associations you may not have considered before. Personally, I do mounds of research on an almost daily basis and it helps to have a tool to organize the facts I come across. The mind map may be the most helpful tool in this book. There's a lot of self help advice in these pages too. It's mainly common sense, but I found almost all of it useful as reminders of what is possible. For example, Buzan suggests considering your perspective before starting any program of study or problem solving. "On average, people assume that there are theoretically infinite insoluble problems and only a relatively minor number of solutions. The fact is, every problem has a solution and there are no insoluble problems for a human brain that is properly trained, activated and aware of its creative functions." pg 82 After a bit of research on the author, it seems Buzan is quite popular in Great Britain and has been for some time. Perhaps it's time for the U.S. to jump on this train too.

Review # 2 was written on 2008-01-08 00:00:00 Gfhd Khyui 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.