And additionally, there is a psychological aversion to doodling In the 1930s, Freud told us all that you could analyze people's psyches based on their doodles.

Here's the real definition Doodling is really to make spontaneous marks to help yourself think.

The receipts can be used as scratch cards to win small amounts of cash, but they also serve as lottery tickets for winning larger amounts.

Here's another interesting truth about the doodle People who doodle when they're exposed to verbal information retain more of that information than their non doodling counterparts.

On the contrary, doodling should be leveraged in precisely those situations where information density is very high and the need for processing that information is very high.

But I have a problem with that belief, because I know that doodling has a profound impact on the way that we can process information and the way that we can solve problems.

So here is my point Under no circumstances should doodling be eradicated from a classroom or a boardroom or even the war room.

Because doodling is so universally accessible and it is not intimidating as an art form, it can be leveraged as a portal through which we move people into higher levels of visual literacy.

And today, we have what is perhaps our most offensive definition, at least to me, which is the following To doodle officially means to dawdle, to dilly dally, to monkey around, to make meaningless marks, to do something of little value, substance or import, and my personal favorite No wonder people are averse to doodling at work.