One study found that people who were directed to doodle while carrying out a boring listening task remembered 29 percent more information than people who did not doodle, likely because the latter group had let their attention slip away entirely.*
Annie Murphy Paul

The point isn’t to listen to boring stuff –
Though everything becomes more accessible
with doodling –
The point is, doodling allows us to be
more present and open.

*Annie Murphy Paul’s The Extended Mind.