When people say they cannot do something, it is often because they got that message from someone else. There are adults who go to great lengths to denigrate works of art that they themselves could never have conceived. That negativity begins at an early age with children jeering at the output of their peers.

I read the work of a guy who had great ambitions to become a fire jumper. When he found out how much strenuous effort went into the job, he decided on journalism instead. Many of the people in office wage slave jobs are there on a temporary basis until they figure out a path to a brighter future.