If you've got a lot of experience, perhaps you think you've got a lot to teach young people joining your industry. Be prepared for the fact that they may have things to teach you. That's the good thing about youth, it has such an unblinkered, fresh approach to stuff, without the baggage the rest of us have picked up.
Beccy joined us full time last year after an internship. She was precocious then, now she's scary. I was happy with a public sector strategy today, until she gave me a totally different point of view.
It's always worth talking through your thinking with someone else, just be gracious when you show you how wrong you've been (and think fast about how you can take the credit).
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