Monday, March 02, 2009
Mind Hacks: Doodling Increases Focus and Recall
LifeHacker: "It turns out that your daydreaming doodles of infinite awesomeness not only help with long meetings, but can also help you remember what goes on during the meeting."
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The analysis of how your brain works in this situation is a real insight into how focus works. I have doodled many times in my life, they aren't pretty but they work.
Awesome, now I have an excuse to doodle. This is actually pretty cool though, like how your mind functions and how the mundane things we do help us think. it reminds me of something someone told me about staring into space, its supposed to be your brain recharging.
Now I have a reason to doodle in class, it may help me focus better. Many times I do start daydreaming and don't recall what is said, but maybe if I doodle instead I will remember that days lecture.
It is remarkable how complex our body are. The fact that the actions of out hands can affect the recall we have of information. I totally agree, even if it is not taking notes, writing something is always better than nothing if you want to retain the information.
And here I thought I was just ADD.
I read an article the other day that in a week of reading the New York Times, a person will take in more information than a person 200 years ago would take in in there entire lives. This amount of information is not an incredibly extreme amount. With this much more information being crammed into our brains, we are constantly adapting and coming up with new ways to take in this much information without it destroying us.
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