Can be worth more or less (including zeroj depending on your answer
Read the following introductory paragraph, which is missing a hook:
New research on how the mind works suggests that doodling improves memory. In the study, a long, dull phone call was
played for two groups of people. One group was told to doodle while
they listened and the other was asked to just listen.
Afterwards, tests showed that doodlers remembered a lot more
of the conversation than those who only listened. The
researchers concluded that listening by itself is not
enough to keep your mind from wandering during a boring task.
Doodling keeps your brain busy, and that helps you stay
focused and attentive.
Which option below makes the most effective hook?
Many of history's most famous thinker were also known for doodling, from artists and inventors to presidents and
Opoets
. Da Vinci doodled. Jefferson
, Lincoln, and Kennedy: all doodled. Ronald Reagan. Picasso and Walt Disney, too.
Even John Lennon doodled. Who didn't doodle
might be easier to list!
I think I owe approximately two hundred apologies. As a teacher, I've given at least that many students the skunk eye
because I thought they weren't learning
when I saw them doodling during my lectures. Was I ever wrong!
O The dictionary defines doodling as the act of absentminded scribbling on paper.
O Have you ever heard that "a mind is a terrible thing to waste?"