Make stuff, build stuff. Create a mental disconnection between new stuff you are learning, and stuff you have learned. Avoid making analogies. Consider that the

Make stuff, build stuff. Create a mental disconnection between new stuff you are learning, and stuff you have learned. Avoid making analogies. Consider that the things you must learn now, are challenges that you can only learn about inwardly. What I mean by that is, disconnect from the hive mind. Make an effort to see the difference. When you were in school, you had to put effort in to learn in a specific way. That way to learn may not be correct forever. Also, learn to live with the knowledge that we are always growing up, no matter how old we get. Sometimes it's not your teachers, society, mentors, authorities, or 'stuff' that have the capacity to make you feel different, or like you are learning something new. The meme of 'self knowledge' has been viral through the centuries, probably for a good reason. I struggle with it myself, obviously, always seeking the correct explanation, never certain whether I've found it, whether others have found it too. I like to pretend my brain is a machine designed to process information and it auto-optimizes the way it stores that information. This may not help, but maybe what you have to do is feel like you have to fight your mind to gain control over it, and once you have it, you might be able to destroy the auto-pattern construction mechanic, or at least make yourself more skeptical of it, in that it doesn't see the pattern meaning directly, but sees how it is constructed through a process you designed a long time ago.