Read the following introductory paragraph, which is missing a hook:

Which option below makes the most effective hook? 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!

The dictionary defines doodling as the act of absentminded scribbling on paper.
Many of history’s most famous thinkers were also known for doodling, from artists and inventors to presidents and poets. 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! Have you ever heard that “a mind is a terrible thing to waste?”