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.

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

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.

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

As we get older it is our short term memory that fades rather than our long term memory. Perhaps we have evolved like this so that we are able to tell the younger generation about the stories and experiences that have formed us which may be important to subsequent generations if they are to thrive.I worry though, about what might happen to our minds if most of the stories we hear are about greed, war, and atrocity

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.

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