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

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.

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

Our emotional map is laid down mainly in relationship with our earliest caregiver in the first couple of years of life.

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

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