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The Doodle Revolution: Why You Should Never Stop Doodling in Class

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The Doodle Revolution: Why You Should Never Stop Doodling in Class             Picture this: a classroom full of students who are studiously writing down on their notebooks during class. I bet the teacher would be delighted for such a beautiful sight. However, some students’ notebooks, upon a closer look, would instead contain small drawings scattered randomly on a page. These are the inattentive scribblers that teachers hated, and they would always get the passive-aggressive line, “thank you very much for paying attention,” when in fact the underlying statement is exactly the opposite. These people are called doodlers, and they are closely related to fidgeters who are people who constantly spins pens during meetings and classes.             However, I have never stopped doodling on the margins of my notebook because I’ve always thought that I remembered most of th...

The Doodle Revolution: Why You Should Never Stop Doodling in Class

The Doodle Revolution: Why You Should Never Stop Doodling in Class             Picture this: a classroom full of students who are studiously writing down on their notebooks during class. I bet the teacher would be delighted for such a beautiful sight. However, some students notebooks would instead have small drawings scattered randomly on a page. These are the absent-minded scribblers that teachers hated, and they would always get the passive-aggressive line, “thank you very much for paying attention,” when in fact the underlying statement is exactly the opposite. These people are called doodlers, and they are also closely related to fidgeters: people who constantly spins pens during meetings and classes.             However, I have never stopped doodling on the margins of my notebook because I’ve always thought that I remembered most of the relevant information after walki...

Growing a Farmer #2

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          Let me start off with a short list of positive aspects of this book before I talk about why it was such a bad one. The only good part about this book was they formatting of the book and the way it was written. This book was written in plain English, and sounded as if the author Kurt Timmermeister was speaking it. Additionally, I also admire Kurt’s risk to invest all he had in something he found passion for that he was unfamiliar to begin with. At the beginning of the book when Kurt wrote his introduction I thought I might me able to enjoy the book. Kurt said that he won’t except us to be a farmer because if this book. I thought from this introduction, there would be a lot of aspects to this book that was not related to just the process of farming. The first couple of chapters kept me a little interested because of his discussion that involved operations, business, and even real estate. However, most of the book related to specifically only the p...