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> "That's probably better, but I've been doing this since the 70s and I'm going to retire soon, I don't want to learn more new things that I don't care about instead of getting jobs done as fast as possible."

My maternal grandfather-in-law recounts that he said the same thing when he was close to retirement, but regrets it badly today. The skills someone was trying to teach him, it turns out, would have been very valuable skills also in retirement.