Product Description

Your thinking process is free-flowing and highly individualized, so you need a method of organizing your thoughts that is uniquely your own. It's time you discovered Mind Mapping, a marriage of logic and imagination that allows you to balance the formation and organization of ideas while encouraging a full range of mental expression.

A Mind Map® begins with a symbol or picture representing your topic and serving as the home base for creative associations. Completed, a Mind Map is colorful, imaginative and expressive of what is distinctively you. Use the breakthrough tool of Mind Mapping to:

• Think faster and more creatively
• Get more work done in far less time
• Develop an "I Can" attitude
• Awaken your power to learn
• Identify talents you never knew you had

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1242333 in Books
• Published on: 1995-03-01
• Formats: Abridged, Audiobook
• Original language: English
• Binding: Audio CD

Ingram
Listeners will learn how to balance the organized formation and creative expression of ideas in this eye-opening debut. A unique marriage of logic and imagination, the Mind Map will help strengthen talents listeners never knew they had. 2 cassettes.

About the Author
Michael J. Gelb founded the High Performance Learning Center where he leads seminars for large corporations, small businesses, professional associations, governmental agencies and educators. He is the author of the bestsellers How to Think Like Leonardo Da Vinci, Discover Your Genius, Present Yourself, Body Learning: An Introduction to the Alexander Technique, The New Mind Map, and Learning and Life.

Customer Reviews

The info is on side 1 and side 4, forget the rest
Artists and writers will like the idea and the practise of mind mapping. Since there's really not that much available on it, I picked up the tape set at the library. As a creative person, I'm always looking for non-linear ways to organize my thoughts on paper, and it's exciting to run into the mind mapping concept. However, it is presented in these tapes in a very dull way, by a droning narrator who reads from a script, which is an injustice to it.

If you listen to these tapes, rest assured that there is a detailed description of the technique on side 4, and a laborious introduction on side 1 of the tapes. I disagree with one reviewer's comments that he's trying to drum up further business, as I found just the opposite. He fails to generate any excitement about it at all, and seems to be appealing to dull uncreative people rather than the creative types who could take this and make it into something amazing. Based on a quick web search I made, it hasn't really caught on among creative types and there aren't many inpiring (or otherwise) new examples to see.

My recommendation is to listen to sides 1 and 4 of 8, get one of those giant desk blotters (or cut open a paper grocery bag), and give mind mapping a try. Then put the whole tape set aside and experiment on your own. It's a simple concept, really, so cut the bow line and take off with it. Be grateful to the people who brought mind mapping to you, and then leave them in your wake.

drivel
These tapes were a disappointment. They are big on hype and low on content. The author extols the virtues of mind-mapping but gives little practical instruction on how-to-do-it. I was expecting a more down to earth presentation. The whole thing is more like an infomercial aimed at promoting the author's consultation practice. You will find little here of practical use. After listening to these tapes, I know as little now about mind-mapping as I did before I started. They were a waste of time and money.

Disappointed
I am very disappointed with the tapes. There was only 2-3 minutes of information that I found useful.