Experience Can Be a Liability.

The longer you’ve done it, the harder it is to see it’s not working.

Experience is supposed to be the trump card. The thing that protects you. The thing that guarantees you know what you are doing.

But here is the twist nobody warns you about.

The longer you do something, the harder it becomes to see that it no longer works.

You start assuming the old rules still apply.

I learned this the hard way.
In tech, the moves that worked in 2008 were useless by 2018.
In sales, cold calls that used to land now die in voicemail.
But I kept trying to force the old playbook because it had worked before.
Experience turned into an anchor I mistook for wisdom.

The danger is subtle.
You do not notice drift when you are the one drifting.
You only notice the gap when something breaks.
For most of us, the break comes late.
A job that no longer fits.
A skill set that stopped evolving.
A version of yourself that is outdated but still showing up every morning.

Experience matters.
But the market does not care how long you have done something. It cares whether you can still do it.

Adaptability pays.
Curiosity pays.
Letting go of what used to work pays even more.

You can keep defending your résumé.
Or you can build the next version of yourself.

What part of your experience stopped serving you, and what are you going to replace it with?

CTRL:C

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