Do You Doodle?

Drawing might help you think

• What kind of business does Sunni Brown run?
• What kind of learning does doodling incorporate?

An author named Sunni Brown wrote a book on doodling. She argues that doodling is a tool that can help people think. She admits that people see doodling as doing nothing, but she wants to change that. In fact, she runs a business that helps companies improve organization and planning through doodling. 

Brown believes doodling is helpful because it incorporates many ways of learning. You learn in four ways: seeing, reading or writing, and through movement.

The more ways you use, the better you learn. And when you doodle while listening to a lecture, you use all four.

You might think that being good at drawing is important for doodling. But if this point of doodling is to help you think, then it doesn't matter what the picture looks like. Even if you're not an artist, doodling can help you. So next time you need help focusing, pick up a pen and doodle away!

Language Lab

admit v. [admits; admitted; admitting]

to say usually in an unwilling way that you accept or do not deny the truth or existence of (something)

- Melanie admitted her fear of men is the reason she never dates.

admit to [phrasal verb] admit to (something) : to admit (something) : to acknowledge the truth or existence of (something)

- The defendant was sentenced to prison after admitting to all the charges.

incorporate v.

to include (something) as part of something else

- This new car incorporates the latest entertainment features.

混合

- The decor of the hotel incorporates styles from several Asian countries.

lecture n.

a talk or speech given to a group of people to teach them about a particular subject

- Professor Anderson's lectures on art history have always been my favorite.

- The boy's mother gave him a lecture when she found out that he had been smoking.

focus v.

to cause (something, such as attention) to be directed at something specific — + on

- You need to focus while operating such complicated machinery.

- Stop focusing on your own problems. You need to care for others.

- I can't focus properly after working on the computer for a long time.