As I get older, I'm using my mind in strictly "logical" ways more and more.

Knowledge has overpowered the other aspects of my mind. I take things far too seriously, and it's making me miserable.

Any dreamy, far-reaching plan immediately falls victim to criticism and doubt. I don't allow myself to have fun, do art, or be playful.

I remember having so many great ideas for entrepreneurial plans that I would pursue. Some of these plans turned out relatively successful, some failed. But now... I feel like I've lost the spirit. When I was younger, I would start things believing it was possible. Now I look at those grandiose, far-reaching, dreamy ideas, and I talk myself out of them. "Oh, it's too late, somebody will think of it and implement it before I do." "Oh, that can only be done if you have tons of time and money." "Oh, that would only work until such and such roadblock and then it would be a dead-end and all that time and energy wasted." I read somewhere that if you don't start a business and "make-it" by a certain age, as you get older the chances of you doing so plummet.

I also read in another book, forgot which, that as you grow older, you learn so many limiting things that weigh you down until it's a problem, then you're just trying to unlearn the things to get back to where you started. As a child, you make friends without even second-guessing yourself. You pick things up off the ground with perfect form. It may look silly squatting down but it's the way that will least likely hurt your back! We knew how to do it the right way intuitively until someone laughed at us for looking silly and we changed everything.

Maybe I'm answering my own question here... but does anyone have any great words of wisdom or practical advice for regaining the powerfully confident mind we all remember having as children? Perhaps starting small?