Draw it out Doodling helps her focus, Mirzakhani said. When thinking about a difficult math problem, “you don’t want to write down all the details,” she said. “But the process of drawing something helps you somehow to stay connected.” Mirzakhani said that her 3-year-old daughter, Anahita, often exclaims, “Oh, Mommy is painting again!” when she sees the mathematician drawing. “Maybe she thinks I’m a painter,” Mirzakhani said. “I like crossing the imaginary boundaries people set up between different fields — it’s very refreshing,” she said. In her area of research, “there are lots of tools, and you don’t know which one would work,” she said. “It’s about being optimistic and trying to connect things.” Indeed, research increasingly finds that doodling is good for thinking, especially in memory retention. “Doodling is really to make spontaneous marks to help yourself think,” said Sunni Brown, in her “Doodlers, unite!” TED talk on the power of causal drawing.
Posted on: Thu, 14 Aug 2014 03:19:23 +0000
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