Words matter. These are the best Tony Buzan Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Like our physical bodies, our memory becomes out of shape. As children, we are constantly learning new experiences, but by the time we reach our 20s, we start to lead a more sedentary life both mentally and physically. Our lives become routine, and we stop challenging our brains, and our memory starts to suffer.
Every child should try everything: sport, music, art, mathematics; they can do it all. Copying and competition are now seen as twin evils, but they are both useful tools.
Through using our memory to its fullest we can unlock the vast reservoir of human potential that isn’t currently being used.
The world isn’t fast-paced, it’s frenetic. People have to be managers of themselves. Time has been managing itself for 15 billion years; we have to manage ourselves in the context of time.
Children are trained to think linearly instead of imaginatively; they are taught to read slowly and carefully, and are discouraged from daydreaming. They are trained to reduce the use and capacity of their brain.
For all aspects of memory, keep yourself physically fit. My catchphrase is, ‘Healthy mind, healthy body, healthy body, healthy mind.’ Your memory needs oxygen as fuel, so why not feed it often?
Babies have millions of brain cells. They are like light bulbs waiting to be turned on. Don’t wait for them to go to school and hope for the best.
As a very small boy, my passion was nature, and I had pets – cats, a dog and a bunny rabbit – and I wrote a very small book called ‘My Pets,’ filled with their photographs and a discussion about my pets and how much I loved them… That was my first book.
Learning how to learn is life’s most important skill.
All children are much more intelligent than they are told they are or the school thinks they are; they just have different intelligences.
