2-Doodling helps us with focused thinking No doodling allowed.īut here was the surprising result: Those who doodled during the tape recalled 7.5 pieces of information (out of 16 total) on average, some 29% more than the average of 5.8 recalled by the control group. They told the other half to listen to the message and write the names. Researchers asked half of the participants to fill in the squares and circles on a piece of paper while listening. In the study, participants had to listen to a (supremely boring) message about an upcoming party and then write down the names of all the people who could attend the party. Here are five reasons why all writers should doodle: 1-Doodling improves our memoryĪ 2009 study conducted by Professor Jackie Andrade found doodlers recalled facts significantly better than non-doodlers.
It’s not meaningless or something of little value or substance. If you’re a writer or a student or a business executive or … well, anyone, really … you should doodle.ĭoodling is not dilly-dallying or wasting time. In fact, I’ve become a pro-doodling zealot after reading the book The Doodle Revolution by Sunni Brown. The benefits of doodlingīut I’m embarrassed no longer. You can see some of what I used to call my lame-ass doodles, adjacent. Until recently, I’d even felt shame for my doodling, which has always seemed pathetic and banal to me. Stick figures with triangles for dresses or two rectangles for pants.
My drawings look like something a 6-year-old might produce on a bad day: They feature square houses with triangle-shaped roofs. My daughters enjoyed drawing and painting when they were young. It now sits proudly on my diningroom wall. That’s a photo of one of my favourite pieces of hers, above. She took up chalk pastels and almost immediately started producing beautiful, saleable work. My mother became an artist at the age of 65. Don’t view doodling as dilly-dallying or time-wasting… Scientists now believe there are excellent reasons you should doodle.
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