It's important to be able to keep things fresh, no matter what age you are, or how many years you've been in the industry.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It's extremely hard work keeping fresh.
I was very successful from a very early age, and I want to keep it.
You've got to perform in a role hundreds of times. In keeping it fresh one can become a large, madly humming, demented refrigerator.
You have to disengage at some point in order to be fresh.
Longevity in this business is about being able to reinvent yourself or invent the future.
It's nice to be important, but more important to be nice. You don't know who your top customers will be five years from now or where you will be in 10 years. You may have a fancy title, but you will always need help from the people around you.
So curiosity, I think, is a really important aspect of staying young or youthful.
I definitely feel a difference about my place in the industry. I feel like I have some longevity now.
The fact is that you are never too old to innovate.
My advice to young people is to get something that's growing because that's how you get career opportunities thrown at you that you don't deserve, if you will... that come at you early because the firms need you.
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