Summary Brain exercises can be as simple as actively engaging the brain in everyday tasks. Others are targeted workouts for the brain, specifically designed to enhance memory, cognition, or creativity ...

Psychologists have discovered that all creative ideas are combinations of existing ideas. A lot of the creativity exercises that I recommend in my book Zig Zag are ways to stretch your mind’s ability ...

We're often taught that mistakes in art are to be avoided. Even kids are brought up to be perfectionists: to scrub it out and start again if their artwork doesn't go the way they planned. Of course, ...