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

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

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

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.

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.

I think there is probably something evolutionary in that we are drawn to the easiest option. But in our age of convenience, cars, ready meals and off the peg mean that we are in danger of being mentally under stretched.