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.

In order to stretch ourselves we do need to experience the vulnerability of not knowing the outcome.

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

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

We don't have to have suffered brain damage to take advantage of the plastic nature of our brains.

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.

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.