FACTS ABOUT DOODLING

•           Doodling can help memory 
•          the word doodle first appeared in the early 17th century to mean a fool or simpleton. 
•          American English dude may be a derivation of doodle.
•          There are 10 types of doodling 
•          Common examples of doodling are produced during long telephone conversations if a pen and paper are available.
•          Stereotypical examples of doodling are found in school notebooks, often in the margins, drawn by students daydreaming or losing interest during class.
•          Popular kinds of doodles include cartoon versions of teachers or companions in a school, famous TV or comic characters, invented fictional beings, landscapes, geometric shapes and patterns, textures, banners with legends, and animations made by drawing a scene sequence in various pages of a book or notebook.
•          doodling is a way to visualize ideas and learn more quickly
•          Doodling helps in jobs such as electrical engineering 
•          Studies show those who doodle retain more of the information they are taught