The extreme of flexibility is chaos and the extreme of being structured is rigid and staying sane, or indeed using your creativity, is about being aw….

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

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

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….

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

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 tel….

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

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..

Sometimes an artist's vision may get blurred when subjected to a committee because an artwork is usually an expression of something unconscious that ….

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..

When we had to survive on our wits, gather and kill our food from scratch and be more at the mercy of our environment than we are today, we probably ….

Meditators are shown to have thickening in parts of the brain structure that deal with attention, memory and sensory functions. This was found to be ….

I think there is probably something evolutionary in that we are drawn to the easiest option. But in our age of convenience, cars, ready meals and off….

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

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. The….

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, a….

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 an….

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

If we keep practicing mental skills it is likely we can strengthen neural connections and make new connections..

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