If we keep practicing mental skills it is likely we can strengthen neural connections and make new connections.

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.

The extreme of flexibility is chaos and the extreme of being structured is rigid and staying sane, or indeed using your creativity, is about being aware of these extremes and steering yourself to areas where you work best which usually tend to be more in the middle than at either extreme edge.

If we are not using our brains' capacity for challenge it feels to me as though it atrophies like an unused muscle.

There are probably times where the creative process is not helped by collaboration.

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

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