Experience can stay curious

Career · Little Light original

The newest person on the team shows you a quicker way to do something you have done for years. For a moment, you feel your experience being questioned. You could explain why the old way exists. You could also pull up a chair and ask them to show you again. A long career gives you judgment, context, and memories of what has failed before. It does not require you to be the first person with every useful idea. There is room to bring what you know and receive what someone else knows. Neither contribution cancels the other. Try their method. Test it against the realities they have not yet encountered. Build something better together. Staying valuable need not mean defending every familiar habit. Sometimes it means becoming the experienced person beside whom a beginner feels safe enough to offer something new.

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