Burns, who directs the Seattle Institute of Human Development, a private research and education foundation. But the pictures we draw when our minds are elsewhere are far from mindless scribblings, says psychologist Robert C. If you're sitting through a boring lecture, doodling's not a bad way to pass the time. Why this urge to scribble? Nervous energy may be the simplest reason. Among the over-65 set, six out of 10 people admit to the habit. According to a 1988 survey by the pen makers Faber/Castell (folks with a vested interest, to be sure), nine out of 10 people between the ages of 18 and 34 are regular doodlers. Strange hieroglyphics march over my notebook pages. Bizarre flowers bloom across my telephone message slips. Give me a pencil, some white space, and I'm doodling. No scrap of paper or empty margin is safe.
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