The Quick Course series of books from the Oxford Centre for the Mind are designed to raise your levels of mental performance by focusing on the fundamentals of what it means to use your mind effectively. Each course covers the essentials of its subject, providing practical advice and a number of exercises. The Quick Course series builds up into a complete mind and brain development course that will help you to achieve your full potential. We use writing as a tool to help us think, to help us concentrate, as a memory aid and as a way of communicating. Yet conventional linear-style note-taking often fails to engage all of the brain's capabilities, limiting what you can achieve, as well as often being visually unappealing. Mind maps aim to challenge and correct these failings. Our Quick COurse will introduce you to mind maps and in a step-by-step manner show you how to use them in a wide variety of different situations, making your work more creative and enjoyable, making you more productive and saving you time.