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

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.

If we keep practicing mental skills it is likely we can strengthen neural connections and make new connections.

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

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.

Our emotional map is laid down mainly in relationship with our earliest caregiver in the first couple of years of life.