The compliment that fits yesterday may need room for who you are becoming.

Compliments arrive late, describing a version of you that people had time to notice. Being told you are good at the thing you did five years ago is warm and slightly out of date, and if you keep accepting it as your description, you begin steering toward the old strengths rather than the ones you are building.

Take the compliment graciously and then ask yourself what you would like to be known for two years from now. Spend some of this week on that, especially the part where you are currently a beginner.