Pegasus Book Club

Human brain’s thinking pattern can be seen as a gigantic branching association machine (BAM)—a super bio-computer with lines of thought radiating from a virtually infinite number of data nodes. The more you learn/gather new data in an integrated, radiating, organized manner, the easier it is to learn more. From this gigantic information processing ability and learning capacity of human mind derive the concept of radiant thinking of which Mind Map is a manifestation.

Radiant Thinking (from ‘to radiate’ meaning ‘to spread or move in directions from a given center’) refers to associative thought processes that proceed from or connect to a central point. The other meaning of radiant are also relevant—‘shining brightly’ , ‘the look of bright eyes beaming with joy and hope’ and ‘the focal point of a meteoric shower’ (similar to the ‘burst of thought).

How do we gain access to this exciting way of thinking? With the mind map, which is the external expression of radiant thinking, we achieve this feat. A mind map always radiates from a central image or topic. Every word and image becomes in itself a sub-center of association, the whole proceeding in a potentially infinite chain of branching patterns away from or towards the common center. Although mind maps are drawn on two-dimensional pages, it represents a multi-dimensional reality, encompassing space, time and color.

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Take the ultimate mental challenge! This book contains more than 50 different types of puzzles—baffling logic problems and cryptograms, 3D mazes, optical illusions and conundrums, visual and verbal teasers, tantalizing word games, and maths puzzles. The loose left ring-file format of the book with durable acetate wallet and wipe-clean pen increases it ease of use by enabling you to take out and work on a page whenever you want.

This book enables you to think fitter, faster and have fun. Its brilliant collection of mind-bending mental challenges helps in improving your mental agility and improving your brain power. Crammed with more than 1000 specially commissioned puzzles and challenges, you will soon find out what makes your brain tick.

Filled with mini-mysteries, conundrums, word search puzzles, verbal teasers, sudoku puzzles and so much more, you have all you need to fight boredom, improve your concentration and master your memory. You will find cryptic crosswords to develop your brain’s agility, memory puzzles to sharpen your mental recall and logic puzzles to enhance your lateral thinking.

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ConceptDraw 7 is a powerful, feature-rich, yet easy to use business and technical diagramming package. It is available for both Windows and Macintosh. The simplicity of the program combined with its features makes it suitable for a variety of tasks for students, teachers, business executives, professionals, and so on.

The product is versatile enough to satisfy the needs of the beginners to power users with equal ease and perfection. For example, this tool can be used to create complex workflow diagrams, pictures for your school or college assignments, organization charts, business processes, engineering diagrams, dataflow diagrams, network diagrams, flowcharts, technical drafts, landscape designs, floor plans, etc.

The advantage of using ConceptDraw is that you can create professional diagrams, charts, and images quickly and easily. The templates, wizards, and other tools help you create what you want within minutes. Once you are comfortable with the program, you can create diagrams and charts on-the-fly during presentations, lectures and other similar occasions.

This tool makes knowledge dissemination and communication much easier and effective. Gone are the days when one has to sit for hours to create a network diagram or an organizational chart. Now these tasks can be completed in a matter of minutes—thanks to ConceptDraw.

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