Tony Buzan - The mindset mapper

In the morning of April 4, after two days of teaching mind map (mind map) to 230 Ho Chi Minh City entrepreneurs, Tony Buzan exchanged with Vietnamese youths at the S8 studio of Vietnam Television.

Each person has a mind map

65 years old but from his agile appearance to his lively personality, he looks youthful. Very often from him the jokes that make people " suck " a look at him. At the studio, the actor juggled three card balls in his hands skillfully like a game he loved.

A young spectator with white glasses, then Mrs. Ta Bich Loan - the host also . tried but the balls fell on the stage floor.

Thinking, according to Tony Buzan, can be recorded in pictures.(Photo: Tuoi Tre)

Tony Buzan slowly: 'When we juggle, don't be confused because there are three balls, but think there is only one left. We choose a left to shoot, not to distract. After failing many times, I will capture not only one but get all three, turn up, turn in excitement ".

Then Buzan ' string ' the story of the ball with the job: 'Thinking to carry out the events of life, too, don't be impatient and need a way to direct yourself, draw yourself a path. Gradually many paths. If you fail, please enjoy it to continue next time. '

Gentle, Buzan leads young people into the world of thinking and brain.

A4 sheets of paper and colorful brushes are displayed. Every young person comes to the beginning of the exchange of sketches of his own thinking.

A 22-year-old self-introduced girl described: 'From this paper clip, I think it can be used to clip objects, as a means of transport, it can be food .'. 'Great ideas' - Tony Buzan commented.

He said that mind map is, it helps people associate with creativity. 'The picture of a girl who has not studied this mind map is not much different from the map he gave by a former student. How do you think? ' - Ms. Bich Loan ' miserable ' asked.

Tony Buzan explains: 'Memory is based on image and association. Everyone regardless of age, gender has this ability, so everyone has a map of their own. That map helps every person, for work, life and society. '

Choosing Vietnam is at the heart of the mind map, Buzan and the young people, on each of their own paper, continue to use colors to outline mind maps.

Have you selected Vietnam map, have you choose red star gold flag as center, tree branches radiating to the sides are images of technology, science, economy, tourism .

On Buzan's' Go Vietnam 'map , there is also a picture of Vietnam's 54-nation culture, community that he explains: ' It is inseparable from development. These peoples in the future will blend in to create a power '.

The tree and philosophy of Tony Buzan

As the author and co-author of 90 titles published in 125 countries around the world, including Vietnam, mind map is understood as a way to open up the power of thinking, creating breakthroughs in thinking. .

Buzan studied in depth about the brain and memory; Find out the rule when building a multi-branch map, helping the brain systematically record events.

The brain is born to remember, then we need to practice it (like limbs if not active for a long time, it will shrink).Mind map helps train the brain.

Tony Buzan's childhood is a story that many young people enjoy. He remembers: On that day, in school, Tony's pupil also had a question 'why should I take so many notes?'.

He began to think about the mind and found that the first way we remember is imagination and association. He gives an example if you imagine a close friend, close your eyes, we don't see the word 'close friend' but the image of that friend.

So if you want to remember a page full of notes, memory we will remember images, pictures, symbols, codes, colors, associations and links. The best way to link images on a page is to use arrows, distances, and symbols that you remember. That is 'mind map'.

At the exchange, he smiled when asked 'what kind of class would you like to return to your childhood?'. He answered: 'It will be a zoo full of nature's beasts'.

Ms. Ta Bich Loan is delighted: hoping that in the future, Vietnamese children will not learn by writing from the chapter but books will be full of pictures and drawings.

The organizers gave him a handful of pumpkin seeds and a tree. Buzan . bite the pumpkin seeds well and point to the tree: 'Grow from seeds, plants need light, water, minerals. So is the mind of children from a young age, if properly cared for in love, it will grow well and continue to be creative '. That's Buzan's mind map philosophy.

Bringing together the mind map with the image of Vietnam as the center, Buzan and the young people smiled as if they had known each other for a long time. He commented: 'The human brain across the country is the same, only culturally different. The other thing of young Vietnamese is the spirit of learning, hard to think about solving difficult problems. I believe the application of mind maps will help your country grow further. '

Dang Tuoi