Unlearning Adulthood

I just finished reading Don't Call It Art by Austin Kleon, and I loved every part of it. It talks about learning from kids. If you're an artist, don't say you're making art. Just make stuff. Do things. It felt like a continuation of something I wrote last year, your experience is making you dumber. How the walls go up as you get good at something. I still see the walls in me. A lot of times it happens when someone talks to me about the space I've been in for years. They tell me how they're building something, and I already have opinions on why it's too hard, or too saturated, or too easy. Why it will work, why it will not work. So now I try to tell them, whatever I'm saying has a lot of bias, so you should really talk to someone else too. I also try to talk myself out of thinking only one way. It's a hard thing to do, but I'm trying my best. What I know is not the only reality of how things work. There's one part of the book where I felt he was talking about me. He says creative…