Our brains do not have to be fixed, they can be plastic.

A sense of achievement improves general confidence and self-esteem.

It seems whether we have a tendency towards being flexible or structured affects how we create, how we parent, how we work.

If you start from a position of I'm a no-hoper, in a paradoxical kind of way you are not risking being vulnerable.

If we think of our brains as a map, those early roads are like grooves, tram tracks, easy to fall into.

We need to look at the repetitions in the stories we tell ourselves [and] at the process of the stories rather than merely their surface content. Then we can begin to experiment with changing the filter through which we look at the world, start to edit the story and thus regain flexibility where we have been getting stuck

Whether you plan or whether you flow in order to be creative probably isn't the point. The point is to keep practicing to maintain neural pathways and to establish new ones by learning new skills.