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.

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

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

If we think of our brains as a map, those early roads are like grooves, tram tracks, easy to fall into.

If you start from a position of I'm a no-hoper, in a paradoxical kind of way you are not risking being vulnerable.

If we are not using our brains' capacity for challenge it feels to me as though it atrophies like an unused muscle.