The speaker argues for approaching each day as a novice rather than resting on expertise. In a rapidly changing world, being a beginner at new things beats being an expert at old ones. Treat past experience as lessons, not limits.
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looking forward has really shifted. Like, I just have to be like, I'm new every day, and my body's new every day, my mind is new every single day, has really helped me to not— I mean, I, I take the old stuff as learning lessons, but the new stuff as, um, as growth. So I heard a great statement, statement, and it was like would you rather be, um, uh, an expert in the old or a novice in the new? And it was really powerful because of all the way things are changing, um, in our whole world. And, you know, and it, it even goes back to our bodies. Like, I would rather be a novice in the new. I, I would just rather set my mind to figuring out and recreating new solutions for myself.