Keep a place where you are learning

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As you become more senior, your working days can fill with questions you already know how to answer. People bring you decisions, drafts, and problems because your experience is useful. Competence feels good, yet a career made only of familiar expertise can slowly become smaller than it looks. Keep one place where you are not the authority. Study a tool you have avoided, sit beside a different function, or practise a skill where feedback arrives before polish. Choose something small enough that being clumsy does not threaten the responsibilities you already carry. The point is not to collect another credential. It is to remain acquainted with the humility and alertness of learning. Beginners notice instructions, assumptions, and possibilities that experts can stop seeing. Returning to that position can make your established judgment more generous. Seniority should give you more ways to contribute, not fewer ways to be surprised. Protect a corner of your working life where curiosity still gets to lead.

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