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

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.

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

Sometimes an artist's vision may get blurred when subjected to a committee because an artwork is usually an expression of something unconscious that is better left in the realm of one person's unconscious if it is to speak to another person's unconscious.

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

The trouble is if we take no new steps to try a new challenge, our comfort zone doesn't seem just to stay still, but retract.

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.