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.

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

Meditation is focused attention and the more we practise focusing our brains the more connections we build up.

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.

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