Namely, that doodling helped her research subjects remember up to 29% more than non-doodlers. And while doodling and knitting or crocheting are quite different activities, they share one trait: they can easily be done with some level of automaticity.Take that, everyone who has been in meetings with me, wondering why I was knitting.
Oh, also, since it isn't just about me, just discovered my pal Heather Hutchinson Ordover is writing a book about this.
Read about it at Newsday.
Sign up for advance notice when the book is ready here. I did.
She's been blogging the book as she goes. Not my style. I'll wait until the whole thing is done.