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Mental literacy is a term coined by Tony Buzan.
It is a pseudoscientific term altered directly from the computer literacy metaphor and used to infer how the brain can be used as a "super biocomputer". The metaphor also implies that the mind uses some sort of set of languages in order to operate and that humans generally do not know how to use them without the Buzan organisation's instruction.
The term was invented for the purposes of marketing and recruiting, and bought into with a view to becoming mentally literate and fulfull the advertised promise of harnessing a perported 99% unused brain power.
"As knowledge of the alphabet and its permutations and combinations is to traditional literacy, and as a knowledge of numbers and their permutations and combinations is to mathematics, so a knowledge of the biological and conceptual alphabets of the brain and its apparently infinite permutations and combinations is to mental literacy"
"The world is historically mentally illiterate"
"Even traditionally well educated and literate individuals are significantly restricted by the fact that they are able to use only a fraction of the biological and conceptual thinking tools which are available (the mind map)"
The Mind Map Book, Buzan and Buzan 1991)Similar pseudoscientific terms:
Radiant thinking
Metapositive thinking
Sensual intelligence
The parabrain
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