Daily practice with images both written and drawn is rare once we’ve lost our baby teeth and begin to think of ourselves as good at some things and bad at other things. It’s not that it isn’t true. But the side effects are profound. Once we abandon a certain activity because we are bad at it, a certain state of mind, (what Ian MacGilchrist might call “attention”) is also lost. A certain capacity of the mind is shuttered, and for most people, it stays that way.
— Lynda Barry
Professor Lynda Barry words this so precisely.
