Michelle Mapman

As I had previously reviewed The Mind Map Book: How to Use Radiant Thinking to Maximize Your Brain's Untapped Potential by Tony Buzan, the originator of the concept, I was pretty excited about this particular book.

I was correct to be so excited. Even though Tony Buzan came up with the idea, and his book was a great reference and full of nice illustrations of some excellent mind maps. I found the book unhelpful in getting started on my own path towards drawing my own mind maps.

Michelle Mapman has done an excellent job simplifying the concept and made this short book informative and useful for those of us who want to get into mind mapping and using the tool. Her explanations are concise and informative without getting bogged down in selling the concepts to the reader and the ideas she shared about ways to use the concept and ways to enhance the visual attractiveness of your own mind maps was very helpful.

It is such a relief to jump right into the nuts and bolts about creating mind maps and having your questions answered in a straightforward way.

The only complaint I have is that I got a paperback edition and the fantastic mind maps that she uses for illustrations were not only in black and white but small enough to blur the fine details of the mind map. Since this is a self published work, I understand the need to economize, a color edition, while spectacular, would have been a financial gamble on her part.

Even with that reservation, i give a full throated: highly recommended to this book. Well done.… (más)