Learning Maps and Memory Skills - Creating Success series (Creating Success, 24) - Softcover

SVANTESSON, Ingemar

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0749441283 ISBN 13: 9780749441289

Publisher: Kogan page, 2003

Synopsis

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 and Memory Skills could be the answer to your problems. Learning Maps are an immensely valuable noting-taking technique that can improve your memory, save you time, and boost your creative thinking. They are also an effective means of getting organised, helping you to develop a more structured and logical approach. Learning maps are different from 'ordinary' note-taking techniques, and have been proven to bring numerous positive effects as soon as you start using them. Learning Maps are useful in all sorts of situations, including: planning and problem solving; summarising notes; remembering facts and figures; brainstorming and ideas generation; remembering key points from a meeting.

Learning Maps and Memory Skills presents a step-by-step guide to mastering the learning maps technique and how to make the most of your memory. In this handy book, Ingemar Svantesson shares simple and straightforward techniques that can help anyone dramatically improve his or her recall and note-taking. The book contains useful tips, examples and practical applications of the tools described.

This revised edition of Learning Maps and Memory Skills contains countless exercises to help you to improve recall and note taking. The book helps you to effectively monitor your progress in both learning maps and memory training, which will ultimately save you time and energy and boost your prospects.

About this title

About the Author

Ingemar Svantesson is a leading lecturer on the theory and practice of learning maps and memory skills. This book is the result of more than 1000 seminars he has conducted throughout Scandinavia, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand. He lives and works in Sweden.

From the Inside Flap

Learning Maps and Memory Skills
Ingemar Svantesson
Revised Second Edition
0749441283

 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 their recall and note taking.

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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

Edition details

• Publisher: Kogan page
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0749441283
• ISBN 13: 9780749441289
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 120