Philippa Perry

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

— Philippa Perry

When we had to survive on our wits, gather and kill our food from scratch and be more at the mercy of…

— Philippa Perry

“You may find that you have been telling yourself that practicing optimism is a risk, as though, somehow, a positive attitude will…

— Philippa Perry

It used to be thought that you stopped making new neural connections in your youth and from then on your brain was…

— Philippa Perry

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

— Philippa Perry

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

— Philippa Perry

Whether you plan or whether you flow in order to be creative probably isn't the point. The point is to keep practicing…

— Philippa Perry

As we get older it is our short term memory that fades rather than our long term memory. Perhaps we have evolved…

— Philippa Perry

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

— Philippa Perry

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

— Philippa Perry

Beginning a new habit, or ending an old one can feel like letting go of a rope that swings a mile above…

— Philippa Perry

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

— Philippa Perry

The trouble is if we take no new steps to try a new challenge, our comfort zone doesn't seem just to stay…

— Philippa Perry

“Examining our assumptions and checking them out with our partner ensures that we have a relationship with the person instead of a…

— Philippa Perry

I am talking about being optimistic enough to sow some seeds in the hope that some of them will germinate and grow…

— Philippa Perry

A relapse doesn't mean you'll never walk down the path you prefer. But I think relapses are almost an inevitable part of…

— Philippa Perry

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

— Philippa Perry

“It may help to remember when you receive a complaint that it is only nominally about you; it is really information about…

— Philippa Perry

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

— Philippa Perry

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

— Philippa Perry

Neurogenesis continues throughout life and we have the capacity to establish new neural pathways and strengthen existing ones.

— Philippa Perry

“...many of our ideas, feelings and actions come from the right brain, while the left brain makes up reasons for those ideas,…

— Philippa Perry

We don't have to have suffered brain damage to take advantage of the plastic nature of our brains.

— Philippa Perry

A sense of achievement improves general confidence and self-esteem.

— Philippa Perry

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

— Philippa Perry