Introduction
WHO IS HE/ BACKGROUND?
Anthony ‘Tony’ Peter Buzan is an English author and educational consultant that was born in London in 1942. He graduated from the University of British Columbia in 1964 where he completed a double honours in Psychology, English, Mathematics and the General Sciences. (Buzan, 1993). He is the founder of the Tony Buzan Mind Mapping approach to thinking.
REASONING FOR FOUNDING THE PROJECT (UNDERLYING THEORY):
Buzan was studying at University where he was in his second year of his study and he was finding that his grades seem to be gradually becoming worse. He decided that he would go to the library to see if he was able to find a book about his brain and how he could use it. When he asked for a book about how to use it correctly the librarian pointed him in the direction of the medical books. He then found that there were no books in the library that covered how to use it. He left the library amazed. Buzan realised that as his study was progressing as he was needing to know and understand more. He found that if he was to take more notes and studied more then he became less worried and he found himself succeeding. (Buzan, 1993). He tried different ways of studying and trying to work out the ways in which his brain would logically progress the information. It was from this that he began to investigate different ways and came to the conclusion of his thinking approach of mind mapping.
WHAT HIS MIND MAPPING APPROACH IS ABOUT:
Tony Buzan’s Mind Mapping approach is a “graphic, networked method of storing, organising and prioritizing information” (Buzan, 2006, p.138). The concept is normally conducted on paper and is a way of showing important information that needs to be remembered. This can be recorded using key words and trigger words or images that will encourage the brain to remember certain memories and create new ideas.