Years ago, during a political debate, my opponent called me “young and inexperienced.” Just two years younger than he was, I responded by thanking my parents for “giving me genes that allowed me to age well.” To me, age is a state of mind or, as Henry Ford once said, “Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 20 or 80. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.”

I am always confounded by colleagues who believe that their education ended the day they received their law degrees or that they cannot adapt to learning new things, such as a new area of law, a new procedure for doing things or any other “new” topic you might think of. To them, if it’s new, it’s not good, and things must remain the way they were years or decades ago.