“The left is in charge of much of our organized thought and decision-making and tends to suppress the right side, which generally rules creative activities.”

I’ve studied people with uncanny abilities – card counters who can beat the house, self-taught artists, people who can remember an unbelievable amount of information. Here’s the thing: These weren’t innate skills – they were acquired.

There are various ways to do it, but I believe the easiest is by training yourself in a neurological phenomenon called synesthesia, in which the brain makes unusual associations between things like sounds, colors and emotions.

Savants gain access to unconscious areas when the brain’s bossy left hemisphere is muted.

We consciously use only a small portion of our brain, but we’re constantly performing complex operations in other areas even though we’re unaware of it.

Most people assume that folks with amazing mental abilities were born this way and that they operate on a plane that’s inaccessible to the rest of us. But nothing could be further from the truth. For more than a decade,

One of the very best ways to keep in touch with your own ups and downs is to keep track of what activities energize you and which drain you – on a regular basis.

There was a lot curious activities emerging in London, Amsterdam, and Berlin back then developing some fiercely fuzzy of synth-like effects way outside the norm which really blew the lid off things.

I was fortunate to have parents who understood the importance of exposing their kids to different sports, different cultures and different activities in order to discover what we liked and what we didn’t like. They didn’t push us, they just gave us many things to choose from.

I spend a lot of time talking to people who disagree with me – I would go so far as to say that it’s my favourite leisure activity.

If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it’s because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that’s the most revolutionary insight of all.

I’m always looking, as an actor, for activities. I think it’s far more interesting to watch what people do than what they say.

Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment.