Drawings in notebooks (while you should be taking notes?)

[Pizzabeak]

How many/what types of doodles do you have in notebooks, preferably done while you should be taking notes, if any? I used to draw a little bit as a kid, so there are a few in mine occasionally going off that, mainly done when super bored by material. I'm thinking of trying to transfer some of the more interesting ones into MS paint and posting in the black & white thread, for lack of creativity.

Nonetheless, this makes me think I might be INFP. I think they might have more doodles overall. I managed to see inside someone's notebook some time ago and theirs were much more neater and traditionally artistic than what I would do. I would imagine looking into a true T type's notebook, maybe INTJ, there would be no goof offery, and just pure interest in the intellectual material, demonstrated by neat and expert recital and rewriting of the most important tidbits, with a little bit of creative understanding thrown in too. I think many will agree that F types are more draw inclined. Thank you.

 

[Teffnology]

Not sure its correlation to MBTI but I did hear of a study where people who do doodle are sometimes able to retain more information than people who just take notes.

Doodling occupies the basal ganglia and allows the conscious mind to wander free and think. This is said to be why Einstein's Patent Office job was so curucial to his discoveies. It gave him an outlet to remove his conscious mind from the task at hand, because of a relatively boring, monotonous administrative position. Sheldon on Big Bang theory also talked about this on an older episode (Cant stand that show but who doesnt love Bazinga?!?!?)

So doodle away WHILE paying attention and watch your retention rise.In theory of course and likely not effective for everybody but most likely INxx types I would assume.

 

[nanook]

my typical doodle was emotionally and psychologically loaded and is found next to a diary type of text. in school i did my best to develop my drawing skills. either way, i promise, no school related information was retained.

i have rarely touched paper after getting my hands on a keyboard

when i had to give a speech about what i learned from clincial group theraphy, i sorted my mind by drawing a complex mind map of symbolical images and connecting keywords that represented my relationships with all the other members, but also their process, what they are about as people, what they mean in my view. it helped me build up momentum somehow and to gain perspective, but then my speech turned out to be mostly unrelated to what went into this mind map and was way more abstract. don't have a copy of it. the young learning therapist wanted to keep it, because she hoped to learn something about beautiful minds, if you know what i mean. she was probably surprised, when she learned that it's much more about the other patients than it's about me.

 

[peoplesuck]

my notebooks are usually half notes half drawings, taking notes seems to distract me from what is actually going on.
always drawing people for some reason
0_o

 

[Ex-User (11125)]

yeah i doodle a lot. in most of my notebooks, many of the pages are pretty much unreadable lol

 

[Vion]

I would do mindmaps with interconnected symbology such as logical operators and over arcing diagrams, basically a shorthand flowchart with extra descriptors. All the usual extra narrative and specification is extraneously pedantic fluff.

 

[Cherry Cola]

98% doodles. Works good for me. The usually put the powerpoint presentations on the university webpage anyway. So usually there's no reason not to doodle. No you are not an INFP because you doodle, that's a huge geberalization youre basing on very little anecdotal evidence and a circular argument by its nature as well, seeing as the anecdotal evidence you have only exists under the presumption that you are an INFP.

 

[Pyropyro]

My notes are covered with a lot of doodles especially since most of the times when I have to take notes, (eg meetings) are quite boring.

Subjects are mostly plant life although I occasionally sketch people and/or things that I see during the meeting.