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How to handle being surpassed by those you mentor

My apprentice is faster than me now and asks questions I can't answer about new techniques and I feel like I'm becoming obsolete at forty-three.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Your apprentice has passed you, and at forty-three you feel like you're becoming obsolete.

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