Why "liminal spaces" are your brain’s secret laboratory

Life’s “in-between” stages pack unique cognitive benefits — if you know how to tap into them.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Neuroscientist Anne-Laure Le Cunff writes that liminal spaces — those uncertain and disorienting “in-between” stages of life — can open up powerful opportunities for growth.

  
  

• They can heighten learning, creativity, self-discovery, and resilience by pushing the brain beyond routine patterns.

  
  

• The key is flipping from anxiety to curiosity through reframing, questioning, and small experiments.