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

I am talking about being optimistic enough to sow some seeds in the hope that some of them will germinate and grow into flowers.

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.

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.

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

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

After a stroke we can re-learn how to talk, because by practicing we can establish different pathways in the brain, circumnavigating the damaged part.