For decades, research in neuroscience has shown that people who doodle when they are exposed to verbal information retain more of that information than their non-doodling counterparts. Doodling is not a waste of time. What doodling truly is: spontaneous marks to help yourself think. Focus. Retain. Remember.
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“Drawing has always been a way for me to relax,” writes Eminem in his visual memoir The Way I Am. “It still is.”
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