• Part 1 Know your brain
• 1          Your brain is better than you think
• 2          Get inside your head
• 3          IQ and your natural brilliance
•            
• Part 2 Harness your brain power
• 4          Transform your ability to recall and learn information
• 5          Master mnemonics to double your memory and more
• 6          Energy 'plus' and 'into' memory yields infinite creativity [E+M=C]
•  
• Part 3 The essential 'mind-tools' for great brains
• 7          Why key words are so important
• 8          Introducing Mind Maps and Radiant Thinking
• 9          How to create a Mind Map
• 10        Speed read to save days, weeks, even months of your time
• 11        The incredible power of 'super' speed reading
• 12        Revolutionise your study skills with the Buzan Organic Study Technique (BOST)
•  
• Conclusion: Thinking for the future
• Appendix: Online resources
• Index

Dramatically improve every aspect of your brain power.

Use Your Head is the definitive guide to maximising your brain. Written by the world’s bestselling author on the brain and learning, and first published over 40 years ago, it has since become the classic brain-training book, helping millions of people to awaken and harness that sleeping giant – the human brain.

It provides a total brain workout, introducing you to all of Tony Buzan’s groundbreaking techniques that have produced some of the most mentally fit people in the world.

Using Mind Maps and other revolutionary methods, you’ll learn how to dramatically improve your memory, IQ, creativity, reading and study skills – every aspect of your brain power.

Ready to stretch yourself far beyond what you ever thought possible?

‘Tony Buzan has done it again ... make your mind work better.’

Ken Blanchard, author of the multimillion bestselling book The One Minute Manager

‘Tony didn’t invent the brain – he did invent the instructions.’
John Husbands, Institute of Management

‘Tony Buzan will do for the brain what Stephen Hawking did for the universe.’

The Times

• A definitive, classic operations manual for the brain, readers can discover how to revolutionise the way they think and learn to wake up their senses and unleash the hidden power of their mind.
• A brand new and fully updated edition of the book which has already sold well over a million copies in 30 languages worldwide.
• The most wide-ranging and thorough overhaul in the book’s 35 year history, now in full colour, bringing the entire content and detailed illustrations to vivid life.
• A fantastic classic look, with a cool, contemporary twist - it’ll appeal to established Buzan fans and new readers alike.
• With this book, readers will learn how to:
  - Improve their problem-solving capabilities.
  - Become more creative in their approach to work and life.
  - Understand, retain and more readily recall information.
  - Improve their memory beyond recognition.
  - Be more open to change and new ideas.
  - Think, learn and react faster and more efficiently.
  - Benchmarks: Mind Maps for Business (9781406642902), new edition, published December 2009 has sold 1,893 copies (TCM Nielsen Bookscan). Buzan’s Study Skills Handbook (9781406612073) published in December 2006 has sold 9,329 copies (TCM Nielsen Bookscan).
• The Popular Psychology and Personal Development market was worth over £12.5million in 2009, Pearson Education is the second biggest publisher in this market, with almost 12% market share.