Wednesday, October 10, 2012

MTHR Organises Lectures on its 10th Anniversary Celebration

Continued... The events in Bengaluru (24th May) and Mumbai (27th May)
featured the renowned author and educational consultant, Tony Buzan, best known for his concept of ‘mind mapping’.

He shared some valuable insights into the workings of the human mind during the course of his lectures. He said that studies have shown that creativity of a human being is maximum (95+) when in standard KG, drops to 50 when in high school and plunges to 10 as an adult. He said that this is normal, and the natural course should be to make it rise back to its high school level.

Buzan also made some stark observations during his talks saying that the recession of 2008-09, where companies went bankrupt, was essentially due to bankruptcy of the mind. He also said that, whereas the age before year 1750 was Agrarian for 100 years, and the subsequent ones were Industrial, Information and Knowledge Ages, the one after 2007 and continuing is one of the Mind: the Intelligence Age. Read More