Two brains are better than one. You've twice the brain capacity and you have two sets of experiences and genes to bring to any challenge.

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

Our brains do not have to be fixed, they can be plastic.

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

We need to look at the repetitions in the stories we tell ourselves [and] at the process of the stories rather than merely their surface content. Then we can begin to experiment with changing the filter through which we look at the world, start to edit the story and thus regain flexibility where we have been getting stuck

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 someone is depressed they tend to retreat within the inner circle of their comfort zone which in the longer term, may contribute to exacerbating a problem rather than soothing it and if not seeking to expand the comfort zone becomes the norm.