Mind Mapping by Tony Buzan - iMindMap™ Official Mind Map Software - The Diigo Meta page

• 29 Nov 09
  

  bartb

  A quick guide – how to make a Mind Map:
  
  1. Gather all the information you need – your research, an array of colored pens and a large blank piece of paper.
  2. Draw a simple image or symbol to represent your central idea in the centre of the page.
  3. Think

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• 16 Oct 09
  

  Florestan Fiorensis
  • ‘the method of Loci’
  • linking the thing to be remembered to some other idea
  • when you see
  • thing in cont
  • ary, it is clearl
  • Imagination and association

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• 12 Mar 08
  

  thinkingtool

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  thinkingtool on 2008-03-12
  Memory can lead to the accomplishments of many astonishing feats. Take for example the story of Mozart visiting Rome in 1770, when he was 14, and listened to Allegri’s Miserere in the Sistine Chapel. The half-hour long piece of music was considered so special that the Vatican forbade its publication, but after the concert Mozart wrote down the entire piece of music from memory. Or more recently, memory champions have been setting world records which seem nothing short of miraculous to ordinary people. It is often assumed that such people must have extraordinary brains or are amazingly clever.
  
  In 2002 scientists put this assumption to the test and performed a range of tests on highly ranked memorizers at the World Memory Championships held annually. The tests revealed that the memory champions’ brains showed no differences to that of ordinary people. However, it was discovered that nine out of the ten memory champions were simply using a technique called ‘the method of Loci’, which dated back to ancient Greece. This method is based on location and imagination. It was therefore concluded that a good memory is simply a skill, and a skill that can be learned – at any age.

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