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

Beginning a new habit, or ending an old one can feel like letting go of a rope that swings a mile above the ground. So we feel reluctant to let go, after all, we've survived so far doing what we've done, why risk it.

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

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

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.

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

It used to be thought that you stopped making new neural connections in your youth and from then on your brain was fixed and it was downhill all the way. But in fact as we know from our own experience we can keep on learning and learning means changing our brain on a physical level.