For the love of doodling

sculptures by the sea Cottesloe, Perth, Western Australia

I have always doodled and should you venture through my home you will notice that nothing is immune. Phonebooks, recipe books, notepads, journals all show my particular brand of graffiti - doodling. Many a lecturer and teacher has taken offence to my habit and have been equally taken aback when I ask the most critical question just at the point of completing my artwork in the middle of their talk.

Study: Doodling Helps You Pay Attention
Recently Time magazine ran an article on  the benefits of doodling, how it relaxed the brain brought it to neutral and cleared the way to excellent concentration - a study by an English psychologist, Jackie Andrade, Ph.D,  found that doodlers absorbed up to 30% more information than non doodlers, which  means when we, the doodlers are  on hold with the phone company, doodling and being calm as we get transferred from one extension to the next - we, the doodlers of the world -  remember better than the rest of you that 'your call is important to us'.