Mind Maps can be used for Note taking (getting information into your head) and Note Making (Getting Information out of your head - i.e. writing and creative thinking.

This applies to nearly every aspect of life - including music -

Here is an example of how to remember a song... Yellow Submarine by the Beatles
http://www.fuzz2buzz.com/en/mex/mind-map/hand-drawn/84/yellow-submarine

Read Corey Stewart's blog on how to develop songwriting ideas using Mind Maps
http://www.songwritingzen.com/?p=19

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Hope you had a great night and happy with the resolutions you have made!

What? not the type to make resolutions because you will only break them?

That is a bit sad if you have because it indicates that you may have given up on yourself and your ability to learn. Read more

Merry Christmas !! Hope you have a lovely day planned with loved ones and take a well deserved break - Unless you are cooking for 28 people etc.

Opening up the stack of Christmas cards was fun and reading what people are up to is a good way to catch up on what has been hapenning with friends and collegues.

Of course there are two ways to write - the linear letter and the radiant Mind Map.

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As we are continuing to develop fuzz2buzz (buzzAcademy to be launched soon), love your help on how we can use twitter to add more value to you.

How have you best used Twitter or any other site?

Bill and I have just returned from an amazing trip to Egypt. What struck me most was the hieroglyphics. Such expression and wonderful peices of art

It brought to mind of how recently Tony Buzan raised our awareness that "Imagination and Assoication is the Human Language"

Imagination or Imag-ination, is made up of images and pictures - and therefore not that surprising that one of the earliest forms of written communication was hieroglyphics.

So to all those doodlers out there - keep on doodling - your brain loves pictures. Read more

Top 10 Must Haves when in Egypt
1.    “Soft” Toilet Paper – emphasis on the “Soft”
2.    Baksheesh (Tips)
3.    Turban (with instruction video)
4.    Sohaila and Finnegan
5.    Indiana Jones Hat
6.    Guitar and/or IPodeee
7.    Drugs – Antinan and/or Laxatives (depending on what you have eaten), Barocca and anti-biotics for the Cairo Cough
8.    Tiger Balm – for the sore muscles from holding the camera or walking down to St Catherines. Read more

Last month, a blog post asked if you are planning another Ho-hum christmas card. We had to keep this year's card a secret until they were finalised and the special insert arrived from South Africa.

This year our theme is Creativity on a Wire, inspired by a Wine Whirl, created by the Vocational Class at St Vincent School for the Deaf*, South Africa.

Go to http://www.fuzz2buzz.com/en/creativity-wired for more information.

Bill and I head off to Egypt today for a 3 week 'holiday' - the first in a long time. Will be exploring many aspects of the country and culture and will send some mind mapped moments.

In this year’s Leadership Victoria Lecture, titled The Leader and the Gang, delivered by University of Melbourne Vice Chancellor Glyn Davis, the traits of leadership were again looked, but this time with a twist.  In his opening Prof Davis said the academic study of leadership has found no laws or formulas to follow in choosing or becoming a leader.  He also said “The term natural leader is a revealing one; a leader who simply emerges from the group without the need for any formal process of selection or appointment.”   
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Millions of people around the world Mind Map and those that do should be celebrated for keeping up to date with latest brain research and thinking tools.
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Here are a few of the more famous Mind Mappers…
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Ken Blanchard – from One Minute Manager fame
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Jack Canfield – Chicken Soup for the Soul
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Deepak Chopra – Author and wellness coach
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President Vincente Fox – Former president of Mexico
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Bill Gates – Cofounder of Microsoft
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