Possibilities

We are innately creative beings. As a child, we used our untethered imagination to create entire worlds, whether we were playing “house” with our favorite dolls, building sand castles at the beach, or impersonating our unbeatable superhero. Enter adulthood ̶ the time we unfortunately yield to the belief or indoctrination of society that as we age, our brains lose their capacity to reconstruct, develop, proliferate, & transform. In the not too distant past, scientists believed that once we reach adulthood, our brains were “hardwired” and we no longer had the ability to form new neural connections. In the past two decades, however, this idea has been refuted. A myriad of studies (e.g. “ Adult-Born Neurons Modify Excitatory Synaptic Transmission to Existing Neurons ”) have documented that the brain has a quality called “plasticity” ̶ the ability to form new neural pathways well into aging years. The brain is extraordinarily fluid, supple, and phenomenally adaptable to new exper...