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.

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.

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.

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

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