Тони Бьюзен - Mind Map Handbook

Use your Spatial Intelligence to help boost your Verbally Intelligent direction-giving skills. Imagine maps or routes around places with which you are familiar, and practise playing through, in your mind’s eye, directing someone, in detail, how to get from A to B perfectly. Then put this into practice in real life!

Verbal IQ and Social Intelligence

Social Intelligence refers to your ability to make positive associations on all levels with other human beings. The connections between Social and Verbal Intelligence are plain for all to see.

It is interesting to note that the person with the greatest-ever English vocabulary, Shakespeare (with a massive 25,000 words!) is also considered to be the greatest portrayer of the heights (and depths!) of Social Intelligence.

If you are especially interested in this synergetic bond, and its application to your own development, start studying (with simple introductory texts, to guide you) the ultimate master of these two intelligences. You will be well rewarded.

Verbal IQ and Physical Intelligence

Physical Intelligence involves your knowledge and use of your body, the relationship of each part with every other part, and especially its fitness – its poise and posture, aerobic fitness, flexibility, strength, diet and rest. It is intimately associated with your Verbal Intelligence.

When your body is upright and well poised, your entire vocal system (the system that carries and delivers the messages of your Verbal Intelligence) is physically more capable of delivering. The message of your words will also be received far more readily if you are upright and physically congruent, than if you are slouched and off-balance. An excellent postural presence immediately boosts your Verbal Intelligence.

Everyone knows how hard it is to be enthusiastic and sound positive when feeling ill or stressed. Not only that: the quieter and more subdued your speech, the more subdued and ‘down’ you become!

Get or stay healthy, especially aerobically and flexibly. As with poise/posture, aerobic and flexible fitness have an instantaneous impact on your Verbal Intelligence. The fitter you are, the more energy you will have, and with more energy your words are more affective and memorable.

Verbal Workout

Word Puzzle Number 19

ginnee

XX __ __ X X

ligboyo

__ X __ X __ X __

litva

__ __ __ __ X

creptiu

__ XX X __ __ X

Clue: Verbal, Creative, Spiritual, Social: __ __ _ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __

Verbal Intelligence Tip

Try unscrambling scrambled words in your head.

Why?

Because unscrambling them in your head is more difficult than jotting them down on paper. By practising this you thus give your verbal muscles an extra strong and good workout. When you are visualizing internally, use all the techniques you have learnt from the previous nine chapters and apply them to your internal visual screen. By doing this you will also be improving your general brain power, as well as specifically exercising your visualization and Creative Intelligence skills.

Word Puzzle Number 20

Which word completes the phrase?

‘A cloud is to rain as lightening is to …

sky

black

thunder

flash

wind

sun

The ideas in this chapter are summarized in Plate 16.

Word Power Booster Number 10

Your Verbal Intelligence can help you develop insights into others, thus expanding your knowledge of psychology. Your 10 booster words in this section are about the different types of human personality.

EFFERVESCENT (effer- véss -ent)

(a) Depressed

(b) Bubbling over with energy and enthusiasm

(c) Talkative

(d) Introverted

EGOCENTRIC ( égo -sentrik)

(a) Philanthropic

(b) Inhibited

(c) Self-centred

(d) Solid

EGOTIST (ego- tíst )

(a) Cheerful person

(b) Shy, reticent, retiring person

(c) Angry person

(d) A conceited, boastful person

EXTROVERT ( éx tro-vert)

(a) Outgoing person

(b) Shy, reticent, retiring person

(c) Angry person

(d) Cheerful person

AMBIVERT ( ambí -vert)

(a) Synonym for extrovert

(b) Shy, reticent, retiring person

(c) Angry person

(d) Combination of extrovert and introvert

GREGARIOUS (greg- ár -ius)

(a) Introvert

(b) Angry person

(c) One who loves the company of others

(d) Talkative person

QUIXOTIC ( kwíks -otic)

(a) Knightly

(b) Unreliable

(c) Idealistic but impractical

(d) Lunatic

PESSIMIST ( péss -i-missed)

(a) One who always looks on the dark side of things

(b) One who always looks on the bright side of things

(c) Sarcastic person

(d) Boring person

ENTHUSIAST (en thús -eeast)

(a) Idealistic but impractical

(b) Saturnine

(c) Egocentric

(d) Person who derives great enjoyment from things

OPTIMIST ( optí -missed)

(a) One who always looks on the dark side of things

(b) One who always looks on the bright side of things

(c) Sarcastic person

(d) Boring person

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The Power of Creative Intelligence

3.1

Introduction: Beginning Your Creativity Journey

Do You/Did You/Are You/Would You?!

How creative do you think you are? To get some (probably surprising) idea of your own creativity, consider the following questions, and ask yourself:

Do you daydream? YES/NO

Do you plan menus and cook meals for yourself, your family or friends? YES/NO

Do you mix and match colours, fabrics and accessories when buying clothes to create your own unique style? YES/NO

Do you like many different kinds of music? YES/NO

Do you remember with pleasure, highlights of your life, including special times spent with friends, great sporting moments, outstanding holidays, any significant ‘disasters’ or triumphs in your life? YES/NO

Did you ask lots of questions when you were a child? YES/NO

Do you still ask lots of questions? YES/NO

Do you sometimes wonder at the complexity or beauty of things, and wish you could figure out how it works/was made/came about/came into your life? YES/NO

Do you have sexual fantasies? YES/NO

Do you have newspapers, magazines or books in your home that you have promised yourself you would read, but for which you have not yet managed to find the time? YES/NO

Are there other things in your life you have promised yourself you would do or accomplish, to which you have not yet got around? YES/NO

Are you moved or excited by superlative performances in the fields of music, sports, acting or the arts? YES/NO

Would you say ‘yes’, if I could wave a magic wand and suddenly:

make you a fit, flexible and superb dancer, able to ‘wow ’em’ at any dance function? YES/NO

gave you a voice equal to your favourite singer, able to sing virtually any song to your own satisfaction and to the pleasure and amazement of others? YES/NO

make you a competent artist, able to rattle off cartoons and sketches, landscapes and portraits, and able to sculpt so well that Michelangelo himself might consider you a worthy student? YES/NO

make you a great story and joke-teller, able to mesmerize and enchant people with your tales, and able to reduce them all to helpless laughter with your brilliant jokes? YES/NO

14. Are you alive?!! YES/NO

If you answered ‘YES’ to more than half these questions, then you are, by definition, Creative. Just how creative will be revealed as you continue your journey through the Power of Creative Intelligence. But to give you some indication, let’s look at a couple of the questions that may have seemed a bit strange: