Latest Philippa Perry Quotes from Interviews

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• If you start from a position of I'm a no-hoper, in a paradoxical kind of way you are not risking being vulnerable.

  Philippa Perry

  Way, Kind, Vulnerable

  Source: bigthink.com

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

  Philippa Perry

  Order, Knowing, Needs

  Source: bigthink.com

• People tend to slip up and go along the old road before they realise what they've done and climb out of it again.

  Philippa Perry

  People, Done, Realising

  Source: bigthink.com

• A relapse doesn't mean you'll never walk down the path you prefer. But I think relapses are almost an inevitable part of any course of self-development.

  Philippa Perry

  Mean, Thinking, Self

  Source: bigthink.com

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

  Philippa Perry

  Couple, Emotional, Years

  Source: bigthink.com

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

  Philippa Perry

  Fall, Thinking, Track

  Source: bigthink.com

• 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.

  Philippa Perry

  Letting Go, Swings, Risk

  Source: bigthink.com

• Sometimes an artist's vision may get blurred when subjected to a committee because an artwork is usually an expression of something unconscious that is better left in the realm of one person's unconscious if it is to speak to another person's unconscious.

  Philippa Perry

  Artist, Expression, Vision

  Source: bigthink.com

• 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.

  Philippa Perry

  Two, Challenges, Brain

  Source: bigthink.com

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

  Philippa Perry

  Creative, Collaboration, Process

  Source: bigthink.com

• 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.

  Philippa Perry

  Challenges, Trying, Steps

  Source: bigthink.com

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

  Philippa Perry

  Self Esteem, Self, Achievement

  Source: bigthink.com

• 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.

  Philippa Perry

  Circles, Retreat, Comfort

  Source: bigthink.com

• 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 had enough challenge to keep our brains healthy.

  Philippa Perry

  Challenges, Healthy, Brain

  Source: bigthink.com

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

  Philippa Perry

  Challenges, Brain, Capacity

  Source: bigthink.com

• 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 the peg mean that we are in danger of being mentally under stretched.

  Philippa Perry

  Mean, Thinking, Car

  Source: bigthink.com

• 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 aware of these extremes and steering yourself to areas where you work best which usually tend to be more in the middle than at either extreme edge.

  Philippa Perry

  Creativity, Chaos, Steering

  Source: bigthink.com

• 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

  Order, Skills, Creative

  Source: bigthink.com

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

  Philippa Perry

  Skills, Connections, Ifs

  Source: bigthink.com

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

  Philippa Perry

  Parent, Tendencies, Flexible

  Source: bigthink.com

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

  Philippa Perry

  Meditation, Brain, Connections

  Source: bigthink.com

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

  Philippa Perry

  Brain, Damage, Advantage

  Source: bigthink.com

• 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 more noticeable in older, more practiced meditators than in younger adults which is interesting because this structure usually tends to get thinner as we age.

  Philippa Perry

  Memories, Interesting, Brain

  Source: bigthink.com

• After a stroke we can re-learn how to talk, because by practicing we can establish different pathways in the brain, circumnavigating the damaged part.

  Philippa Perry

  Brain, Pathways, Different

  Source: bigthink.com

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

  Philippa Perry

  Brain, Plastic, Fixed

  Source: bigthink.com