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Baby Boomers-Boost Your Memory with Scribbles and Doodles

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Baby Boomers-Boost Your Memory with Scribbles and Doodles
, just like one of our most famous and wealthiest Baby Boomers, Bill Gates. He does it and you should, too. That is, if you want to remember things better and longer.

We’re talking about scribbling and doodling. Studies show that people who squiggle, scribble, doodle and sketch while listening may have better recall.

Baby Boomers-Doodle For Your Noodle

Researchers suspect that doodling helps keep people more alert and reduces their daydreaming. In a study of 40 adults, half of the group shaded in a row of shapes and the other half did nothing while listening to a boring phone message. Then, when asked to remember what they had heard, the doodlers recalled 29 percent more information than the non-doodlers.

Baby Boomers-Boost Your Memory with Scribbles and Doodles…now where is my Etch-A-Sketch?

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2 Responses to “Baby Boomers-Boost Your Memory with Scribbles and Doodles”
  1. Memorywiz says:

    What an interesting idea that doodling and scribbling should increase and boost recall. Perhaps it is because it keeps one more alert or conscious at the time and therefore aids better recall?

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