One of the best signs of growth is being gentler with people who are where you used to be.

It is tempting to be hardest on people making the mistakes you recently stopped making, because their version is so recognisable. Real change usually runs the other way and softens you, since you remember how little could be seen from where they are standing. Impatience with beginners is often a sign you are not far past being one. Gentleness costs nothing and marks the distance travelled.

Think of someone currently doing what you used to do. Offer them what you wish somebody had offered you back then. Say it once and leave it with them.