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

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.

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

A relapse doesn't mean you'll never walk down the path you prefer. But I think relapses are almost an inevitable part of any course of self-development.

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

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

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