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Thank you, Vicky, and I look forward to boosting my sky-high miles by more trips to Singapore.So today's talk is cognitive flexibility as the gateway to successful decision making, creative thinking, and optimal brain health or function. I want to begin with a few acknowledgements to my collaborators in this work, including the Click program and the many people who contribute to this, and also I'd like to acknowledge our sponsor from A Star, Ang Sung Meng. Thank you very much.

Cognitive flexibility: When we ask people what we mean by cognitive flexibility, they came up with a whole lot of words, providing this word map you can see on the right. So the kind of words we have here are enterprise, innovation, lateral thinking, plasticity, volatility, uncertainty, retraining. My definition operationally is simply adapting to change and problem solving in new situations. These are the keys.