- Mar 2016
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if you ask them to draw you a picture, you’ll likely get wildly different takes.
This reminds me of way too many group projects... somehow we also find out the day before the deadline that we were thinking about and working on completely different ideas.
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Our minds process letters as discrete images, so text is right at home in a doodle.
This made me wonder whether more people think in "words" or in "pictures."
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The use of a hand-drawn visual language starts with an alphabet.
While this is interesting, I think that teaching the "visual alphabet" kind of takes away from the whole point of doodling (creativity and individualistic learning).
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To apply doodle power at work, we first need to give ourselves permission to doodle.
Maybe workplaces need to incorporate more creative behavior, such as doodling, rather than repeating the same routines over and over.
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auditory
How does doodling involve auditory learning?
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what it does for hordes of humans around the world
It would be interesting to read about stories that are similar to Virginia's-- what other unorthodox methods of studying have people implemented?
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Virginia decided to draw rudimentary visual representations of every concept in her Morrison and Boyd textbook.
I wonder how long this took compared to more orthodox methods of studying.
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