<p>All throughout high school I would randomly draw/sketch or color something in the middle of a class lecture and I began to notice that it sharpens my focus; I tend to understand and retain material much better if my mind is stimulated doing something else (this also happens if I'm watching a tv show or a movie while folding laundry or piecing a puzzle together).</p>
<p>Can anyone relate? Is there a term for this so I can Google it up?</p>
<p>I don’t necessarily draw or sketch, but I’m more focused if im listening to my ipod. Not too loud, not to soft. Just enough to drown out everything else. And of course this is only when Im studying.</p>
<p>Definitely. Scribbling really helps me take in the lecture. I can’t study without background noise. Dunno why…</p>
<p>i do it all the time, its called multitasking.</p>
<p>It definitely helps me. Although I study best when listening to music I don’t recognize that has no words (or no words in english)…Pandora David Darling if you want to know what I’m talking about. As far as doodling, however, I’m not really artistically minded so that doesn’t work as well for me, but I can see that it would.</p>