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We start from doodles and sketches.

There were scribbles all along the wall.

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Now it turned out to be Bill Gates' doodle.

And I have a beautiful page of doodles from Jonathan Woodham's talk.

No wonder people are averse to doodling at work.

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And they have bosses who scold them for doodling in the boardroom.

But that does contribute to people not wanting to share their doodles.

In the 10th century, little squiggles were used just to indicate the general shape of the tune.

I spend a lot of time teaching adults how to use visual language and doodling in the workplace.

We think doodling is something you do when you lose focus, but in reality, it is a preemptive measure to stop you from losing focus.

Studies show that sketching and doodling improve our comprehension and our creative thinking. So why do we still feel embarrassed when we're caught doodling in a meeting? Sunni Brown says Doodlers, unite! She makes the case for unlocking your brain via pad and pen.

There is a powerful cultural norm against doodling in settings in which we are supposed to learn something.

In the 1930s, Freud told us all that you could analyze people's psyches based on their doodles.

I think that our culture is so intensely focused on verbal information that we're almost blinded to the value of doodling.

So I was curious about why there was a disconnect between the way our society perceives doodling and the way that the reality is.

The incredible contribution of the doodle is that it engages all four learning modalities simultaneously with the possibility of an emotional experience.

So here is my point Under no circumstances should doodling be eradicated from a classroom or a boardroom or even the war room.

On the contrary, doodling should be leveraged in precisely those situations where information density is very high and the need for processing that information is very high.

Draws a system of self organizing lines. It starts out as random squiggles, but after a few iterations, order begins to appear. Written by Martin Pool 1999.

But I have a problem with that belief, because I know that doodling has a profound impact on the way that we can process information and the way that we can solve problems.

Here's another interesting truth about the doodle People who doodle when they're exposed to verbal information retain more of that information than their non doodling counterparts.

Draws different shapes composed of nervously vibrating squiggles, as if seen through a camera operated by a monkey on crack. Written by Dan Bornstein 2000.

This is not accurate, but it did happen to Tony Blair at the Davos Forum in 2005, when his doodles were, of course, discovered and he was labeled the following things.

In fact, he said, we now know that squirming and doodling, often seen as a sign of boredom, can actually help combat it by keeping people more physically alert.

Because doodling is so universally accessible and it is not intimidating as an art form, it can be leveraged as a portal through which we move people into higher levels of visual literacy.

And unfortunately, the press tends to reinforce this norm when they're reporting on a doodling scene of an important person at a confirmation hearing and the like they typically use words like discovered or caught or found out, as if there's some sort of criminal act being committed.