I’ve been constantly trying to convey to you that your ability to learn faster is a great competitive advantage. For this reason, our Learning Management Programme was developed.
I’ve also written about a simple philosophy for success – find a passion and become good at it. This article was written nearly a year ago, as part of my motivational material for 2009. Have a look at it. If you had applied those principles, where would you have been now? It’s not too late. Start now!
These two skills will give you an …

Are you juggling your own balls, someone else’s balls, or simply too many balls?
This article can’t answer this question for you. It is just intended for you to rethink about the balls that you are juggling, so that you can really focus on what you really want to achieve in life.
It can also prompt you to look at your load at work, if you feel swamped and cannot get through your daily ‘To Do List’.
Once you have decided what YOU want to focus on, this article holds the secret to …

In my article on the Six Thinking Hats, I used the term Radiant Thinking. Tony Buzan, the inventor of the Mind Map, calls Radiant Thinking ‘The Major Evolution in Human Thought’ in The Mind Map Book.

He describes the brain as a Radiant Thinking Association Machine with five major functions: Receiving, Holding, Analysing, Outputting, Controlling

The thinking gurus
Edward de Bono is one of the leading authorities in the field of creative thinking. He also provides tools for lateral thinking. He is also the originator of ‘parallel thinking’ and also developed the ‘Six Thinking Hats‘ as a thinking framework.
Tony Buzan is the inventor of the Mind Map. He uses the term Radiant Thinking, which sees the brain’s thinking pattern as a gigantic Branching Association Machine. The more you learn and gather information in an integrated, radiating, organised manner, the easier it is to learn more.
As you …

This article is in response to an email from one of my subscribers. He mentions a few problems that he has with Mind Maps, which I hope to address here. If he has the problem, then the chances are that many of you may have the same or similar problems.
I would like to start by stating upfront that this is not a defence of Mind Maps. Mind Maps and Mind Mapping, like any other technique, has its champions and its detractors.
Tony Buzan, the inventor of the Mind Map, goes to …

I am publishing this PDF document of the Mind Map in my article, Seven Habits – Mind Map Summary, as many readers complained that they could not read the Mind Map.

I put a bit too much into the Mind Map for the space I have available in my blog post.

Sorry about that. I hope that this is much clearer.

Click Here for seven-habits-summary

Regards,

Faizel

How many times have you read a good motivational or self help book and thought to yourself, ‘Wow, what a great book!’ Yet, months and years later, you find that you don’t remember any of the principles nor implemented any of them.
The Mind Map is a great way to not only summarise the principles of a book, it is also a great way to easily review the principles and, more importantly, remember and implement the principles.
I hope this summary of Stephen R. Covey’s ‘Seven Habits of Highly Effective People’ will …

This is the topic of a ‘Business Day’ article and describes Tony Buzan’s view on the world economic crisis.

He states that if business leaders had graduated with Master of Business Intelligence degrees as opposed to MBAs, the world may not be in the pickle it is at the moment.

Tony Buzan, the inventor of Mind Mapping, recently toured South Africa and, at 67, he still has a hectic schedule. He claims that his brain is sharper now at 67 than it was at 40 …

Mind Maps in the beginning
Tony Buzan, the inventor of Mind Maps, was doing research on the working of the brain when he invented Mind Maps. The result of his efforts, the Mind Map, enabled people to discover the wonders and unlimited potential of our wonderful brain. It also gave the ordinary person the ability to awaken the genius within.
The main focus of his landmark work, ‘Use your Head’, was how to improve your memory with Mind Maps. A secondary theme was how to improve your reading and how to improve …

As a South African, I am so pleased when I pick up a book and find that it can compete with the best the world has to offer. One of those books, is ‘In the Zone’ by Michael Cooper and Tim Goodenough.
The book uses successful South African sports heroes to illustrate how to achieve top performance in sport and life.
Athletes often talk about being in the zone and how being in the zone is the key, the secret and the power. What they have not known is that there are …