Making Things We Know Will Disappear

When kids decide to create something, a kind of magic happens – they just start creating it. They build and make and design all at once without hesitation or fear. The things break and fall down, and they just try again. Sometimes they “make” things just in the world of their imagination, creating elaborate landscapes or histories or machines or friends that never leave the world of pretend. They still throw themselves into that process without concern or shame.

But somewhere on the journey out of childhood, something happens: We start to care. We decide that, if we are going to bother to create something, it should be “good.” Or more extreme, we decide that it should be “important.”

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/budding-scientist/making-things-we-know-will-disappear/