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The Most Important Graph in The World
Posted by: Bill Jarrard on Sunday, 22 April 2012 - 11:48am
Jennifer Goddard, John Eales, Memory, The Most Important Graph in The World, tony buzan

Jennifer and I just spent the last two days at our District Rotary Conference, hearing some remarkable stories and meeting a lot of great people. One of the key speakers was 'Nobody' or in other words John Eales the champion Rugby player, who's nickname "Nobody" comes from the saying "Nobody's perfect" in reference to John's reputation as the perfect Rugby player.

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Mother of Civilization Library
Posted by: Bill Jarrard on Thursday, 29 December 2011 - 8:06am
Mind Mapping, Mother of Civilization Library, tony buzan
Mother of Civilization Library

In early December we had a request from a voluntary organization which sets up work in Indus Valley Sindh, the southern part of Pakistan, who have a project to help and facilitate a libraries program in Sindh, with the name of “Mother of Civilization Library”.

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Happy Birthday Tony Buzan
Posted by: Bill Jarrard on Thursday, 2 June 2011 - 8:10am
Birthday, Buzan Centre, mind maps, tony buzan, Wordle

Tony..

Just a short video recognition of how much we think of you, and that we are thinking of you today on your 69th Birthday

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Jennifer, Bill and all the Buzan Centre Team

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iMindMap vs MindGenius vs MindManager
Posted by: Jennifer Goddard on Thursday, 3 March 2011 - 8:05pm
imindmap, Mind Mapping, MindGenius, software, tony buzan

It feels like a new Mind Map program comes out each week - all with a different look, feel and usability.

We get many emails asking about the differences and if you have one product can you upgrade to another?

The core programs are :

iMindMap  

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Every day should be Free Thinkers Day
Posted by: Jennifer Goddard on Friday, 24 December 2010 - 5:49pm
alan black, alex osborn, Edward de Bono, Sidney Parnes, thinking, tony buzan

Happy Freethinkers’ Day!!
Today is the day to celebrate Free Thinking, an important element to get your brain buzzing with new ideas.


Let’s do some meta thinking (thinking about thinking)to enhance our creativity, improve our memory and thinking abilities.


How can you learn to think more freely?

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What creativity books or articles have you read??
Posted by: Jennifer Goddard on Tuesday, 28 December 2010 - 6:12pm
alan black, article, business, creativity, Edward de Bono, ideas, Innovation, Michael Gelb, michael michalko, Ned Herrmann, tony buzan

I have a stack of books on creativity on my bookshelfs.  All have taken a different, dare I say creative, approach to explaining creativity.  From where I am sitting  I can see ...
Tony Buzan's "Power of Creative Intelligence"
Edward de Bono's "Serious Creativity"

Robert Alan Black's Broken Crayons

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Mind Mapping helps unlock our natural intelligences
Posted by: Jennifer Goddard on Friday, 24 December 2010 - 6:18pm
creativity, ken robinson, Mind Mapping, teachers, TED, thinking styles, tony buzan, USA, visual intelligence

Just reading Sir Ken Robinson's book, "The Element - How finding your passion changes everything". (The element is the point at which natural talent meets personal passion)

A great read, very insighful and lots of stories of how very famous people found thier element.

I particularly liked the story of how Mind Maps helped unlock our natural intelligences to remember vast amounts of information. Here is an extract in the chapter of In the Zone [pages 96-97]...

 

"Being Yourself


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How to Achieve a Better, Faster and Cheaper Economy through Thinking
Posted by: Jennifer Goddard on Wednesday, 2 February 2011 - 6:15pm
Leadership, singapore, thinking, tony buzan

We are entering into a new age - not just because of we are nearing the end of 2009, but because this is the age of intelligence.

Nations and corporations can no longer rely on existing methods to solve today's global issues. As a nation, we need to build new strategies for our workers to compete on the global stage. The call for better, faster and cheaper economy comes at an opportune time when the world has just recovered from a major economic shake-up.

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Brain Trust Charity and Brain of The Year Award
Posted by: Bill Jarrard on Tuesday, 28 December 2010 - 6:24pm
Edward de Bono, Lateral Thinking, tony buzan

The Brain Trust Charity hosted its Annual Dinner last night to announce this year's Brain of The Year Award.  We are particularly excited to advise that the winner is the originator of Lateral Thinking, renowned author and lecturer, and the recently-elected European Union Global Ambassador for Thinking

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Nurturing Brain Smart Children in the Age of Intelligence
Posted by: Jennifer Goddard on Tuesday, 7 December 2010 - 3:41pm
children, education, intelligence, mind maps, parents, singapore, TEFCAS, tony buzan

Is Education quickly evolving to meet the needs of students in this new Age of Intelligence?

Children today have to be mentally literate and understand how to utilize their brain skills in order to learn and think more intelligently. Parents need to know their new role in nurturing and supporting their children to stay relevant in the new globalised world.

Parents also need to know about :

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