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Book Blitz method

The Book Blitz method utilizes Mind Mapping to enhance reading comprehension by structuring the book's content. It consists of seven steps, starting with defining the purpose for reading and culminating in the creation of a dynamic Mind Map that evolves over time. This method encourages the identification of key information through a systematic approach to organizing the book's chapters and sections.

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Book Blitz method

The Book Blitz method utilizes Mind Mapping to enhance reading comprehension by structuring the book's content. It consists of seven steps, starting with defining the purpose for reading and culminating in the creation of a dynamic Mind Map that evolves over time. This method encourages the identification of key information through a systematic approach to organizing the book's chapters and sections.

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The Book Blitz method takes advantage of the Mind Mapping architecture by scaffolding the

structure of the book in anticipation of the reading process. This enables the brain to
understand the systemic structure of the book (its whole and its parts) and optimizes the
reading, identification and comprehension of the relevant knowledge stemming from the book.

The Book Blitz method comprises 7 steps. These are included in the Mind Map except for
defining your purpose, which we marked as step zero.

0) Establish your purpose for reading the book. Write it as a Twitter-like message of no more
than 140 characters. Whatever your purpose is (expanding your knowledge, completing
coursework, applying a methodology, getting a certification) you need to know your purpose and
it needs to be clear from the get-go. Your purpose will prepare your brain for identifying the
relevant information in the book that you’re about to read. You could include your purpose as an
embedded note within your Mind Map.

1) Look at the cover of your book and draw the central image for your Mind Map that depicts the
book in a memorable way. Remember that your central image acts as the main gate for
unleashing the rest of the information contained in the Mind Map.

2) Find the sections of the book (in the table of contents) and the sections become your main
branches or BOIs. If the book has no sections but chapters as the first level of categorization,
use the chapters as the BOIs. If there are more than 8 sections, we recommend chunking the
sections into fewer categories that you'll create (and decide their keywords or images) based on
the similarities of the chapters. Ideally, the number of BOIs should not exceed seven.

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3) Find the chapters of the book, and the chapters become second level branches. If there are
more than 5 chapters per section, we recommend grouping them into similar chunks so the
number of second level branches does not exceed 5 per BOI. This will allow you to create a
Mind Map that is easy to navigate and identify the key parts of the book.

4) In each chapter, find any headings in the text. These headings become third-level branches. In
some cases, the headings are the sub-chapters of the book and are also part of the table of
contents.

5) Read the book, one chapter at a time (or sub-chapter, if the chapter is the first level in the
table of contents), and find the keywords and key images that are salient: those elements that
connect with your purpose and add more value to it. Place post-its where you found them, so
they could be easily located later. As an option, you could write a keyword, draw an image
(sketch) or write a short paragraph (Twitter like message) on the post-its. When you become
fluent in this method, you'll include post-its in 10 to 20% of the book's pages, following a Pareto-
like pattern: 10 to 20% of the book fulfills 80% of your purpose.

6) Add keywords and images to your Mind Map, in the corresponding chapter-heading branches,
by going back to the post-its of each chapter and reviewing the keywords and images (and your
notes within the post-its) found in these pages. As you become an advanced Book-blitzer, you'll
be able to better identify the most relevant and value-adding parts of the book.

There’s no final step since Mind Maps are living documents that could dynamically evolve over
time.

If the book is long, for example, it has more than 400 pages, you could create sub-Mind Maps by
section or chapter and link them to the Master Mind Map by means of a symbol (for example a
letter of the Greek alphabet that connects the master Mind Map with their children) or in the
case of a computer-based Mind Map, a link to their children Mind Maps.

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