Learning Maps and Memory Skills

GET ORGANISED BE CREATIVE BRAINSTORM GREAT IDEAS IMPROVE YOUR MEMORY Are you tired of wading through pages of notes to find the information you want? Do you need to improve your creative thinking? Do you find it difficult to decipher the notes you have taken during a meeting? Learning maps could be the answer to your problems. They are an immensely valuable note-taking technique that can improve your memory, save you time, and help with creative thinking. They are useful in all sorts of situations, such as: planning and problem solving; summarising notes; remembering facts and figures; brainstorming; remembering key points from a meeting. This revised second edition is packed with exercises that can help you to monitor your progress in both learning maps and memory training. Simple and straightforward, it can help anyone to dramatically improve his or her recall and note taking.CONTENTS Background How to use this book What is a learning map? Getting started 'Ordinary' note taking Keywords The human brain Learning maps Other people's texts Using learning maps What is the memory? Mnemonics Learning maps applications Learning maps: summary Select bibliography Puzzle solution Memory exercise Further reading from Kogan Page