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#GoCreative.
I'm a bit sceptical about brain training and #creativity. Brain training works best in getting you used to jumping through particular mental hoops and improving your ability to do a specific brain task. 
But creative thinking is different.
The brainwaves that distinguish creative leaps, great ideas and inspired thinking have been shown by neuroscience to be
I used to do long-distance running and whenever I hit a wall, I would think of Haruki Murakami quoting Guatama Buddha on the difference between inevitable and optional: ‘Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
‘Say you’re running and you start to think, Man this hurts, I can’t take it anymore. The hurt part is an unavoidable reality, but whether or not you can stand any more is up to [you].'
Here are ten more inevitables and an optional mindset with which you can meet each of them.
Or not.
With the help of the good folk at PaperLi, I'm now curating The Creative Times.
In this daily epublication, I aim to gather the very best writing and broadcasting about the very best creative work from around the English speaking world.
Today's issue has: