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

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

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

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.

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.

I think there is probably something evolutionary in that we are drawn to the easiest option. But in our age of convenience, cars, ready meals and off the peg mean that we are in danger of being mentally under stretched.

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