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

Two brains are better than one. You've twice the brain capacity and you have two sets of experiences and genes to bring to any challenge.

As we get older it is our short term memory that fades rather than our long term memory. Perhaps we have evolved like this so that we are able to tell the younger generation about the stories and experiences that have formed us which may be important to subsequent generations if they are to thrive.I worry though, about what might happen to our minds if most of the stories we hear are about greed, war, and atrocity

People tend to slip up and go along the old road before they realise what they've done and climb out of it again.

Neurogenesis continues throughout life and we have the capacity to establish new neural pathways and strengthen existing ones.

Meditation is focused attention and the more we practise focusing our brains the more connections we build up.

Plasticity is an intrinsic property of the human brain and represents evolution's invention to enable the nervous system to escape the restrictions of its own genome and thus adapt to environmental pressures, physiologic changes, and experiences.