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. — Philippa Perry Copy Share Image
In order to stretch ourselves we do need to experience the vulnerability of not knowing the outcome. — Philippa Perry Copy Share Image
When we had to survive on our wits, gather and kill our food from scratch and be more at the mercy of our environment… — Philippa Perry Copy Share Image
“You may find that you have been telling yourself that practicing optimism is a risk, as though, somehow, a positive attitude will invite disaster… — Philippa Perry Copy Share Image
It used to be thought that you stopped making new neural connections in your youth and from then on your brain was fixed and… — Philippa Perry Copy Share Image
It seems whether we have a tendency towards being flexible or structured affects how we create, how we parent, how we work. — Philippa Perry Copy Share Image
Meditators are shown to have thickening in parts of the brain structure that deal with attention, memory and sensory functions. This was found to… — Philippa Perry Copy Share Image
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… — Philippa Perry Copy Share Image
As we get older it is our short term memory that fades rather than our long term memory. Perhaps we have evolved like this… — Philippa Perry Copy Share Image
The extreme of flexibility is chaos and the extreme of being structured is rigid and staying sane, or indeed using your creativity, is about… — Philippa Perry Copy Share Image
Our emotional map is laid down mainly in relationship with our earliest caregiver in the first couple of years of life. — Philippa Perry Copy Share Image
Beginning a new habit, or ending an old one can feel like letting go of a rope that swings a mile above the ground.… — Philippa Perry Copy Share Image
If we keep practicing mental skills it is likely we can strengthen neural connections and make new connections. — Philippa Perry Copy Share Image
