People tend to slip up and go along the old road before they realise what they've done and climb out of it again.

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

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

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

When we had to survive on our wits, gather and kill our food from scratch and be more at the mercy of our environment than we are today, we probably had enough challenge to keep our brains healthy.

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

If we think of our brains as a map, those early roads are like grooves, tram tracks, easy to fall into.