Successful people understand and manage the three basic elements of learning... their Strategy for Reading their Comprehension of what they're reading and their ability to Recall and use information coming in. When you understand how this three-legged stool of learning is enhanced you too
Need an idea? Take a nap! I’ve always been a visual person, which is why I like the creative thinking skill of Imagineering – imagine what might be and engineer it into reality. So when a Byte Stories email arrived
Our friend David Hill in New York just told us the Mind Map he created of all the parties involved in Rebuilding Downtown Manhattanis now a museum piece. Here's what they're saying: After the 9/11 destruction of the New York City
Mindwerx International and Life's DHA are again sponsoring the 2013 Australian Open Memory Championship in Melbourne on 24-25 August. Other sponsors are Powercor and Oaks on Collins. Memory is the flipside of creativity, and these Memory Olympians show just what
Have you ever wondered why people you work with resist change, particularly any sort of unique or innovative change? Well it may come down to what we call the QWERTY Mentality. This comparison of how many people think, to the common
Well 2012 is drawing to a close and it looks like the doomsday pessimists misread the Mayans, and 2013 approaches full of challenges and opportunities, so we thought we’d take a little time to think back over the year that
My father told me a joke the other day that went like this. “An old man and his wife needed some white bread and milk, so the husband decided to go down to the store to buy some. His wife
This is a simple repost of a blog I did in April, as Tony Buzan and Jennifer Goddard's new book is now available. ----------------------- Jennifer and I just spent the last two days at our District Rotary Conference, hearing some remarkable
A good friend asked me a while ago about how he could develop better conceptual thinking skills in some of his staff members. After happily giving him a bit of advice he turned what I'd given him into a simple
A friend approached me recently with a problem and asked if I could help. "I was in an important meeting recently and in an hour I saw one person destroyed and the company lose a million dollar opportunity. "It
