Customer Reviews
Not much about mindmaps - By: Hans Madsen, 02 Dec 2006 
Despite the title, this book is unfortunately not much about mindmaps & certainly not ultimate. The content is concerned with a healthy life & good habits for learning - if you want to get detailed knowledge about mindmapping, it's not very helpful. This book might be useful for children & highschool-students, but isin no way academic.
Try instead the book that Tony & Barry Buzan wrote together on mindmaps.
Great insights into why mind maps are useful and how to use them - By: Andrew Wilcox, 30 Sep 2006 
Tony & his colleagues have created a great book about his process or technique called mind mapping. The books justifies why this technique is valuable, mapping the reasons right back to the design of our brains. He uses maps, thank goodness to explain his reasonsing. Goingin the other direction, his artists have shown very vividly how the technique can be usedin a wide variety of business & personal situations.
I use this book to inspire others about mind mapping. Very few people will achieve the artistic quality shownin the book but those that are inspired by mind mapping will certainly develop maps with greater & more valuable (to them) content than thosein the book.
As a Mindjet MindManager user, trainer & consultant, this book is a valuable asset which I carry with me to my events. I use it to show the inspiration behind MindManager, an incredible business information mapping tool. If, it was not for Tony Buzan inspring Mike Jetter, who created MindManager, I would not have enjoyed myself so much at work & elsewhere. Eleven years ago, I sat next to a mind mapper at a major conferencein London. Which encouraged me to read Tony's first book "Use Your Head" & mind map my way back from Rotterdam to Swindon to start a new job!
Comparing "Use Your Head" to the "Ultimate Book of Mind Maps" is like comparing chalk & cheese. The former (although excellentin isolation) is dry, mostly white (there are six colour pages) & hard to digest. The latter is colourful, juicy, easy to read but can be a bit like overeating at your favourite Indian restaurant. Everything looks, tastes & smells so good, you order too much. You eat it & then take several days to recover but don't regret it. Also your friends & colleagues will know where you ate the night before because you are going to talk about it!
Thank you Tony for a great book & my tool of first choice.
