Yes, yes, you have heard it all before from me. Visual thinking. Mindmapping. Improved recall. Greater brain efficiency. And yet, when I talk with collegues about these ideas, I am still met with skepticism and doubt.
Okay, don't trust me? Than how about these folks: Leonardo da Vinci, Samuel Beckett, Mark Twain, John Keats and Sylvia Plath. They all let their pencils and pens wander around the page, creating all sorts of imagery when they might have been trying to concentrate on something else. Now there is evidence that doodling isn’t the result of an idle mind, but a keen one.
An article on metro.co.uk expounds on the value of the doodle. For example "in 2009, research by Jackie Andrade, professor of psychology at Plymouth
University, showed that doodling increases our attention span in
meetings. The study made two sets of volunteers listen to a boring phone
message and then asked them questions about it. Those who had been
doodling had better powers of recollection." Doodle advocates argue that ‘Doodling through classes or meetings can often result in pages, spreads
or maps that have both illustrated the subject and stored it away in
our memory in a much more effective way than taking down notes."
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