It seems whether we have a tendency towards being flexible or structured affects how we create, how we parent, how we work.

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.

Whether you plan or whether you flow in order to be creative probably isn't the point. The point is to keep practicing to maintain neural pathways and to establish new ones by learning new skills.

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.

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

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