The Brain Trust have declared that the Century of the Brain and the Millennium of the Mind start at the very beginning of the Year 2000, and are organising celebrations on Day One - Saturday 1st January. We shall be celebrating all the time while somewhere on the world enjoys that date; the party starts in Fiji at 11am GMT on 31st December and the last place in the world left celebrating it is Samoa at 11am GMT on 2nd January.

We're very lucky to have the founder of The Brain Trust, Tony Buzan as a chat guest three times to celebrate the event - during the first hour of Day One, as celebrated in Fiji, during the last hour of Day One, as celebrated in Samoa, then lastly during our regular Sunday night chat session. Tony will be very pleased to field your questions on the Brain Trust, on the Century of the Brain and the Millennium of the Mind and on all other mental matters.

There could even be one or two other star guests dropping by from time to time during the celebrations...

Tony Buzan is the world's leading author, lecturer and advisor to governments, business and the professions on the brain, learning and thinking skills. He is the originator of Mind Mapping®, the thinking tool popularly called 'the Swiss army knife of the brain'!

Among his 82 best selling books, the classic Use Your Head has catapulted him to the position of BBC's number one selling international author. His latest works include the revolutionary Brain Smart Leader published August 1999. Others of Tony's initiatives include the foundation of The Brain Trust Charity, the £30,000 Brain of the Year Award and the co-founding of the Mind Sports Olympiad, with its key perception that mental skills and disciplines can be transformed into both sporting contests and educational initiatives. Tony and his Buzan Centres have clients around the world, including numerous multi-national corporations.

Tony Buzan is the Chairman of The Brain Foundation, Founder of The Brain Trust, the originator of Mind Maps®, and the creator of the concept of Mental Literacy.

Buzan is past Editor of the International Journal of MENSA (the high IQ Society) and is also the holder of the world's highest 'creativity IQ'. Among Members of the Young Presidents' Organisation he has become affectionately known as 'Mr. Brain'.

As one of the world's leading authors, he has published 22 books (19 on the brain, creativity and learning and Mind Sports and one volume of poetry). His books (which include: Use Your Head, Use Your Memory, Make the Most of Your Mind, Speed Reading, and Brain Training) have now been published in fifty countries and translated into twenty languages. Use Your Head has surpassed worldwide sales of a million, and is a standard introductory text for staff training within IBM, General Motors, EDS, Fluor Daniel, Digital Equipment Corporation and for students of the Open University. The Mind Map Book: Radiant Thinking, on the nature of human thought, published in September 1993, was nominated the BBCV's 'Book of the Year'. His latest publications are Buzan's Book of Genius, written with Raymond Keene, O.B.E., published by Random House in November 1994, an illuminating explanation and discussion on the nature of genius, with methods for developing your own genius, Lessons in the Art of Juggling, written with Michael J. Gelb, published by Crown/Harmony in the U.S.A., and by Aurum Press in the U.K., and The Age Heresy - You Can Achieve More - Not Less - As You Get Older, written with Raymond Keene, O.B.E., published by Ebury Press.

Tony Buzan has also recorded an audio cassette programme in 12 parts entitled The Genius Formula, in which he discusses with Raymond Keene, O.B.E., the dominant characteristics of geniuses through history, and builds an astonishing profile. The Formula, which we can all use to improve our mental and physical well-being, is distributed by Nightingale Conant, the set is designed to unleash the phenomenal power of the brain.

Tony Buzan has become an international media personality featuring in, presenting and co-producing many satellite broadcasts, television, video and radio programmes, both national and international, including the record-breaking Use Your Head series (BBC TV); the Open Mind series (ITV); The Enchanted Loom - a one-hour feature documentary on the brain; and numerous talk shows. His two latest videos are MindPower, distributed by the BBC, which teaches the concepts of Mind Mapping principally for business use, and which recently won the top award at The 1991 IVCA Festival, and Get Ahead, a one hour video on developing 'Brain Power for Kids', presented by Tony Buzan and Lana Israel.

He is advisor to government departments and multi-national organisations including B.P., Barclays International, Digital Equipment Corporation, Electronic Data Systems, Hewlett-Packard, and I.B.M., and is a regular lecturer to leading international universities and schools. He is co-founder of the Memoriad, the World Memory Championships, and of the Mind Sports Olympiad.

In the early 1990s Tony Buzan launched two major initiatives. First, The Academy, which provides extended courses and seminars on Mental Literacy, Business Intelligence, artistic and cultural intelligence, all taught in the context of mens sana in corpore sano - a healthy mind in a healthy body. Second, The Intelligence Institute, which provides a hundred of the world's finest brains as an intellectual task-force to assist corporations, governments, foundations and educational institutions to chart their way through the intellectual challenges of the 21st century.

Buzan is an advisor to international Olympic coaches and athletes and to the British Olympic Rowing Squad as well as the British Olympic Chess Team. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Training and Development, and is an elected member of the International Council of Psychologists. He is a Member of the Institute of Directors, a Freeman of the City of London, and is also a Patron of the Young Entrepreneurs' Societies of both Cambridge and Bristol Universities. Adding to his list of honours, including the Young Presidents' Organisation Leadership Award, and membership of the 'Distinguished Faculty' of the Institute for Management Studies, was his recent recognition by E.D.S. with the Eagle Catcher Award - given to those who attempt the impossible and achieve it!

ALSO BY TONY BUZAN

BOOKS:

• Use Your Head
• Use Your Memory
• Master Your Memory
• Speed Reading
• Memory Vision (workbook for Master Your Memory)
• The Brain User's Guide
• Make the Most of Your Mind
• Harnessing the ParaBrain (business version of Make the Most of Your Mind)
• The Mind Map Book: Radian Thinking (with Barry Buzan)
• Buzan's Book of Genius (with Raymond Keene, O.B.E.)
• The Age Heresy (with Raymond Keene, O.B.E.)
• Lessons in the Art of Juggling (with Michael J. Gelb)
• Spore One (poetry) (limited edition)
• The Evolving Brain (with Terry Dixon)
• Brain Power for Kids (with Lana Israel)
• BrainSell (with Richard Israel)
• Get Ahead (with Vanda North)
• Brain Training (cartoon book with Pecub)

VIDEO TAPES:

• Use Your Head
• The Enchanted Loom
• Improving Mental Performance
  1. Mind Mapping
  2. Memory Skills
  3. Information Management
• Developing Family Genius
• MindPower
• Get Ahead (with Lana Israel)

AUDIO TAPES:

• Learning and Memory
• The Intelligence Revolution
• Make the Most of Your Mind
• SuperCreativity and Mind Mapping
• Brain Power
• The Genius Formula
• BrainSell

EDUCATIONAL:

• The Rocket Project for Children, Parents and Teachers (with Ake Wilsby)
• Buzan Centurion Curriculum (100 lessons on Learning to Learn)

OTHER WORKS:

• The Universal Personal Organiser
• Master Your Memory Self-Enhancing Master Memory Matrix (SEM³ 0 - 10,000)
• The Brain Club Book - A Manifesto for the Mind

Tony will be chatting live at http://www.msoworld.com/chat.html three times as listed above. If you can't attend, we invite you to send your questions to us at chat@msoworld.com and look here after the event for a full log of the chat sessions.