The Higher Purpose of Doodling

"The Higher Purpose of Doodling." CBSNews. CBS News. Jan. 19, 2014. Web. Feb. 10, 2014. <http://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-higher-purpose-of-doodling/>

Forsythe, Giulia. "Why Doodling Matters (draft 1)." flickr. Flickr, 4 Aug. 2011. Media. 6 Feb. 2014. <http://www.flickr.com/photos/gforsythe/6009763204/>.

     People think that doodling is just a thing that people do while they begin to get bored, like in class or while sitting at home doing some random task. The Oxford English Dictionary even states that doodling is a "drawing made absentmindedly" which a lot of people find to be untrue. People use doodling to help themselves remember important things by attaching a small picture to help symbolize what they need to remember for another time. 

     Mapping things out is doodling, many people use that all over the world, planning out what you need and how to get it. Graphing what you need to know. Twenty-nine percent of the people that doodle while trying to remember something remember it more than the people that sat and listened to the whole message.

     My stand point of this topic? To be honest I could care less about whether or not doodling helps to pay attention, it all depends on you and how you learn when you get down to the bone doesn't it? So why not let people do what they like and learn how they want; if it helps people learn by doodling while they listen, let them. If they need to pay full attention one-hundred percent of the time, let them.

     I believe that the author thinks that doodling should be more widely accepted as a way to learn. Once they say "The doodle seems to be the artistic equivalent of Rodney Dangerfield -- it just gets no respect."  The author seems to believe that people discredit doodling as a way remember things and to help and the work place and they are not going to "take that sitting down." They are trying to show the audience how doodling can be good for you while trying to prove their point.