little_tippler

I used to doodle a lot more---but yes I doodle. Now I call them my sketches

Even so, I find that study hard to believe. I know that when I pay attention, I take copious notes, and I'm pretty sure I will remember more than a 'doodler', because I was really focused on capturing the information that was being imparted. But that's just me.

I also don't quite agree with the idea that when you're in a class listening, it's not stimulating enough so your brain needs something else. I think, sometimes, no matter how great the information being shared can be, your mind just wanders anyway because it can only take so long of a person's voice droning on, or you may be tired, or have a lot of other things to worry about at the time...I don't see how doodling helps you take in that class better.

I guess it may help in not totally canceling out what you're trying to retain, but I think people just get restless sitting at a desk for very long and need to distract themselves with something else after a while. For myself anyway, if I doodle during a class, I usually get carried away with the doodling and reatin less than I would normally.

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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.

Fernando Pessoa, 1918