5.Herbert Benson, The Relaxation Revolution: The Science and Genetics of Mind Body Healing (New York: Scribner, 2010), 56.
6.Howard, The Owner’s Manual for the Brain, 349.
7.Ibid., 730.
8.Ibid., 821, 828.
9.Ibid., 821.
10.David Bayles and Ted Orland, Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking (Santa Cruz, CA: Image Continuum, 1993), 29.
11.Howard, The Owner’s Manual for the Brain, 723.
12.Kenneth Blanchard, Whale Done! The Power of Positive Relationships (New York: Free Press, 2002), 34.
Chapter 10. Why It Matters
1.Dylan Loeb McClain, “Harnessing the Brain’s Right Hemisphere to Capture Many Kings,” New York Times, January 24, 2011, accessed January 28, 2011, from http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/25/science/25chess.html?_r=1&ref=science.
2.Ibid.
3.Merim Bilalic, Andrea Kiesel, Carsten Pohl, Michael Erb, and Wolfgang Grodd, “It Takes Two: Skilled Recognition of Objects Engages Lateral Areas in Both Hemispheres,” PLoS ONE 6(1), accessed January 28, 2011, from http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0016202.
4.McClain, “Harnessing the Brain’s Right Hemisphere to Capture Many Kings.”
5.Pink, Drive, 126–27.
6.Bayles and Orland, Art & Fear, 5.
7.Doidge, The Brain That Changes Itself, 59.
8.Ibid., 60.
9.Bayles and Orland, Art & Fear, 17.
10.Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (New York: Scribner, 2000), 209.
11.Bayles and Orland, Art & Fear, 14.
12.Ibid., 10.
INDEX
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Acetylcholine, 159, 164
Adrenaline, 20
Allende, Isabel, 135
Alpha waves, 53, 97
Alzheimer’s disease, 128
Amabile, Teresa, 161–62
American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 154
American Sleep Association, 99
Amygdala, 15, 104, 123, 144, 142, 226
fear response triggered by, 20, 23, 223–24
Angelou, Maya, 186
Anxiety, 64–68, 86, 200, 201, 229
alleviation of, 104, 117, 136
limbic system triggered by, 27, 29, 216
respecting, 237–38
Anxiety disorders, 97, 104
Aphasia, 211, 212, 216
Appreciation, 230
Appreciative Inquiry (AI), 240
Arousal system, 224. See also Amygdala
Art & Fear (Bayles and Orland), 232, 251, 268
Artist’s Way, The (Cameron), 40, 259
Asile de Bel-Air hospital (France), 23–24
Atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) 104, 105
Attacker Saboteur, 185, 187, 189, 192
Attention. See Focus
Audience, 262
first, careful selection of, 263–64
overemphasis on, 262–63
Balzac, Honoré de, 135
Barry, Dave, 217
Barth, John, 107
Bayles, David, 232, 251, 268
Becoming a Writer (Brande), 41
Begley, Sharon, 43
Bellow, Saul, 135
Benson, Herbert, 225
Bernays, Anne, 136
Berninger, Virginia, 42–43
Bilalic, Merim, 248
Bite-size pieces, breaking tasks into, 229
Black, Ira, 32
Blanchard, Kenneth, 243
Blooming of a Lotus, The (Thich Nhat Hanh), 122
Blowing off steam, 229–30
Bogart, Humphrey, 126
Braille, 33
Brain That Changes Itself, The (Doidge), 33, 127, 198, 252, 254
Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), 103, 128
Brain Rules (Medina), 109
Brain stem, 16
Brainstorming, 67, 68, 76, 107, 250
Saboteur’s rap sheet, 196
tools for, 61, 76, 77
Brande, Dorothea, 41
Bravo, 72
Breathing, 227
British Columbia, University of, 103
Broca’s area, 19
Brown, Stuart, 129
Buddhism, 120, 202
Bullock, Sandra, 226
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (film), 209
Butler, Robert Olen, 106–7, 137
California, University of, 95
Los Angeles (UCLA), 198
Cameron, Julia, 40, 259
Capote, Truman, 136
Carlsen, Spike, 64–65
Carroll, Lewis, 136
Casablanca (film), 126
Case Western Reserve University, 240
Caudate nucleus, 201–2, 249
Cerebellum, 19, 108–9, 120, 128
Cerebral cortex, see Cortex
Chandler, Raymond, 178
Cheever, John, 136
Cherokee, 252–53
Cingulate gyrus, 18, 200–201
Claparède, Edouard, 24–26
Clustering, 61, 67, 68, 72, 75–77
Commitments, 6–8, 148–52, 157, 203–4, 238, 280–81
honoring, 8, 40, 44, 56, 219, 244, 252, 275
Process, 39–40, 54–57
Product Time, 65, 70, 80, 82–85, 88, 112, 152, 251
Saboteur and, 193, 194, 267
Self-care, 100, 119, 121, 131–32
shared, in support and accountability groups, 278–82
Confusion, 215
Cook, Jean, v–vii
Cooling down, 227–28
Cooperrider, David, 240
Copernicus, 32
Cortex, 15–23, 109, 223, 225, 237
creative, 27, 80, 123
focused attention of, 109–10
frontal, 29, 128
lobes of, 19
orbital frontal, 200, 201
prefrontal, 19, 121, 123–24, 128
reticular activating system and, 19–20
somatosensory, 33, 120, 153
visual, 23, 33
See also Limbic system, takeover by
Cortisol, 20, 103, 124, 126, 207
Counting to ten, 227
Courage to Write, The (Keyes), 136
Creative Habit, The (Tharp), 136–37
Creative play, 34, 42–44, 52, 129
Creative Process, 51, 66
rewards and, 160–63
stages of, 69–79
Creativity (Csikszentmihalyi), 154
Creator archetype, 180
Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly, 77, 120, 154
Dalai Lama, 121
Dancing in the Dragon’s Den (Bane), 69–70, 180
Danticat, Edwidge, 43
Davidson, Richard, 121–24
Deci, Edward, 161
Delta waves, 53, 97
Denial, 214
Desert Storm, 156
Diary-keeping. See Journaling
Dickens, Charles, 135
Disappointment, hope in face of, 270–71
Discovery, 72
Disney Hyperion, 270
Disraeli, Benjamin, 136
Distracted (Jackson), 107–8
Distractions, 54, 213, 221, 257
culture of, 107�
�8, 111
procrastination and, 83
rituals for resisting, 136
self-medicating via, 231–32
susceptibility to, 3, 6, 30, 216
in work space, 178
See also Multitasking
Diversifying portfolio, 260–62
Dog agility training, 105, 125, 165, 171–73
Doidge, Norman, 33, 127, 198, 252
DoNotDisturb application, 116
Dopamine, 157
exercise and, 103–4
play and, 127
rewards and, 159, 164, 172, 175–76
Drawing on the Artist Within (Edwards), 70
Dreams
Drive (Pink), 159
Drozdal, John, 65, 84, 193–94, 204
Dumas, Alexandre, 135
Dweck, Carol, 165–66
Edison, Thomas, 100
Edwards, Betty, 69–70
Egyptians, ancient, 153
Einstein, Albert, 32, 100
Electroencephalogram (EEG), 120
Elvis & Olive (Watson), 45
Emerson College, 184
Emotional Brain, The (LeDoux), 15, 22, 25, 224, 286
Endings, writing, 272–73
Entering the Flow, 122
Enticer Saboteur, 185–86, 189, 192
Environment, changing, 232–34
Exercise, 100–106, 228
Experience, impact on neural connections of, 140–42
Facebook, 31, 62, 213, 261, 273
Family Matters Parenting Magazine, 262
Fear response, 223–24. See also Fight-or-flight response
Feedback, 154, 162, 183, 225, 242
from first audience, 263–64
Product Time and, 62, 68
rejecting, 31, 214
in writer’s groups, 276
Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway (Jeffers), 223
Fifteen Magic Minutes, 80–81, 85, 251
Fight-or-flight (stress) response, 29–30, 142, 225, 228, 231
First Insight, 67, 70–73, 76, 78
Fletcher, E. S., 119, 121
Fletcher, Jacquelyn B., 60–61, 85, 183–85, 197, 204
Focus, 106–18
tracking and, 166
Forgetting, 215
Fornix, 18
Frank, Loren, 95
Frankenstein (Shelley), 100
Freewriting, 41, 59, 61, 67–69, 72, 75, 195
using Product Time for, 73, 76
about public success, 261
about resistance, 238, 241
in response to challenges, 8–9, 221, 255–56
about Saboteur, 261
Freud, Sigmund, 188
From Where You Dream (Butler), 107, 137
Frontal lobe, 19
Full Catastrophe Living (Kabat-Zinn), 122
Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI), 120, 248
Gamma waves, 120–21
Gladwell, Malcolm, 35, 120, 171, 249
Goldberg, Natalie, 8, 41
GrandPré, Mary, 270–71
Grass, Günter, 136
Gratitude journal, 230
Gulf War, 156
Harry Potter books, 271
Harvard University
Brain Trust, 48
Mind/Body Medical Institute, 225
Hebb’s Law, 81, 138, 142, 147, 202, 306
Hemingway, Ernest, 136, 144
Hibernation, 69, 70, 78–79, 116
High-Performance Mind, The (Wise), 53
Hippocampus, 18, 140, 144, 224, 226
History Channel, 72
Hitler, Adolph, 189
HMS Gloucester, 156
Hormones
sleep and balance of, 96
stress, 20, 103
See also Cortisol
Horse’n Around magazine, 91
Horses for Pauline (Peterson), 91
Howard, Pierce J., 97, 99, 162, 231
Hugo, Victor, 136
Hypercriticism, 213
Hypnagogic state, 100, 106
Hypothalamus, 18
posterior, 231
If You Want to Write (Ueland), 41
Illumination, 68, 70, 76–77, 116, 120
Illusions of grandeur, surrendering, 86–87
Immune system, 96, 124, 226
Incubation, 68, 70, 74–76, 78, 100, 116, 154
Initial Inertia, 83–84
Inner Critic, 178–79, 183
Inner Destroyer archetype, 180–81
Innocent Saboteur, 185, 186, 189, 192
Internet, 74, 111, 113, 213
random number generators, 176
website-blocking applications, 116
Intuition, 48, 53
Inventory, Interest, 72–73
Iraq, 156
Jackson, Maggie, 107–8
Jacobs, Gregg, 225
Jeffers, Susan, 223
“Jell-O effect,” 225–26
Jersild, Arthur, 108
Jordan, Hope Dahle, 136
Journaling, 46, 69, 72, 98, 150, 259
to blow off steam, 229
gratitude, 230
as Process, 41, 149
of responses to challenges, 9
sabotaging, 187
Jung, Carl, 180, 181
Kabat-Zinn, Jon, 122
Keats, John, 136
Kerouac, Jack, 178
Keyes, Ralph, 136
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 245
King, Stephen, 66, 136, 178, 233, 262, 272
Kubla Khan (Coleridge), 100
Kunitz, Stanley, 257
Kurosawa, Akira, 211–12
Kuwait, 156
Lamott, Anne, 87, 199
Language centers, 19, 157, 182, 208, 216, 235, 279
Lao-tzu, 250
Laughter, 230
Learned non-use, 167–68
LeDoux, Joseph, 15, 22, 25, 224, 286–87
dopamine in, 159
emotions and, 155, 157, 211
responses of, 234. See also Fight-or-flight response
takeover by, 15–16, 20–23, 26–30, 64, 80–84, 123, 142–43, 86, 156–57, 208–9, 211, 215–16, 224
Loft Literary Center (Minneapolis), 10, 122, 277
Lonstein, Ann, 39
Lord of the Rings, The (Tolkien), 183
Maas, James B., 99
Mailer, Norman, 65
Maloney, Mary, 63–64
Mammillary body, 18
Massage, 230
Mastery, 201, 247–49, 271
hours of practice required for achieving, 120, 171, 249–51, 257
competitive plasticity and, 251–52
Maximum heart rate (MHR), 105
McAlister, Pam, 84
McPhee, John, 136
Medina, John, 109
Meditation, 119–24, 202, 227
visualization in, 230
Mental vacation, 230
Mind/body medicine, 225
Mind & the Brain, The (Schwartz), 153, 199
Mind-mapping, 61, 67, 68, 72, 77
Minnesota, University of, 125
Monkeys, research on, 153, 167–68
Motivation, 37, 144, 154, 216
of characters in fiction, 79
emotional triggers for, 144
intrinsic, 159–63, 166–67, 175
Self-care and, 96, 102, 124
Multitasking, 10
8–11
Music, playing or listening to, 231, 233
Myelination, 11–12, 81, 146–47
Myss, Caroline, 179
My Stroke of Insight (Taylor), 32, 48, 181
Nass, Clifford, 115
National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), 66, 270
Neural pathways, 12, 56, 66, 253
See also Myelination new, creation of, 141, 147
Neurogenesis, 128, 226
Neurons, 15, 120, 159, 182, 204
connections between, 138–42, 147, 169
dopamine, 157, 175, 176
injury to, in stroke patients, 34–35, 167
myelination of, 11–12, 81
new, growth of, 103, 106, 128, 226
plasticity of, 32–35, 251–52
See also Hebb’s law
Neuroplasticity, 12, 32–34, 63, 127, 138, 146
competitive, 252, 254–55
focus and, 114, 147, 153
OCD treatment based on, 198
Neurotransmitters, 103, 159. See also Cortisol; Dopamine
Newman, Paul, 209
Newsweek, 42
Newton, Isaac, 83
New York Times, The, 95, 114–15
Non-use, learned, 167–68
Norepinephrine, 104
Nygaard, L., 150–51
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), 198–203
Occipital lobe, 19
On Writing (King), 262
Optimism, excessive, 214
Orland, Ted, 232, 251, 268
Outliers, The (Gladwell), 35, 249
Overscheduling, 214
Owner’s Manual for the Brain, The (Howard), 97, 162, 227–28, 231
Paquette, Gordy, 44
Parasympathetic nervous system, 231
Parietal lobe, 19
Parker, Dorothy, 178
Paul, Alice, 245
Pavlov, Ivan, 143, 149
Paying it forward, 257–63
Peanut Gallery, 182
Pearson, Peter, 158–59
Perfection, surrendering expectations of, 86–87
Perfectionism, 213
Personal success, 259–61
Pessimism, excessive, 213–14
Peterson, Eileen, 79, 174–75
Peterson, Pauline, 91
Pets, stress-relieving with, 228
Picasso, Pablo, 180
Pineal gland, 18
Pink, Daniel, 159, 249
Pituitary gland, 18
Plasticity, brain. See Neuroplasticity
Play, 32–34, 110, 161, 271
Process, 40–46, 48, 52–57, 59, 78, 87, 130, 205, 271
Self-care, 93, 110, 119, 124–32, 226
in stroke treatment, 167