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As a kid, you might have gotten in trouble for the random doodles all over your notes, but as a grown-up, those same scribbles could prove to be a life-changing experience.

Not life-changing in the sense of making a million bucks or magically cleaning up the mess that is your dwelling place, yet in small ways that can add up to big benefits.

1. Concentration- Doodling elevates focus and concentration. That person in the meeting doodling away in the margins of her notebook and seemingly not paying attention to the speaker? Well she is actually more attuned and clearly focused on the points being explained!
2. Memory- Doodlers remember more and have a higher capacity for information retention. Thus, we should really be encouraging this practice-from childhood through adulthood- and especially as adults where in our everyday worlds we feel stressed and overextended.
3. Exploration- Doodling deepens knowledge exploration. The brain synapses that are distinctively ignited when you put pen to paper in a random, meandering sort of walk- parallels the type of exploratory thinking we need to do to innovate on a consistent basis.

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