How to put an "old head" on young shoulders is a continuing issue in general aviation. Most young pilots are willing to learn from those with experience as they appreciate one of the most quoted adages in aviation; "learn from the mistakes of others because you won't live long enough to make them all yourself".
If you learn properly you are going to spend the majority of your flying career on the edge of new experiences. Now, obviously this is a rather broad statement but essentially as you gain experience you will gradually begin to push the envelope of conditions in which you will fly. With experience though there comes an insidious danger; the normalisation of deviance.
No, its not my phrase but was coined by a very insightful woman, Diane Vaughan, who researched the Challenger space shuttle explosion. It is the gradual erosion of standards over time until those standards become dangerous if not fatal. To cut a long description short you can have a standard that is safe and sound but over times elements of that standard will be omitted, mostly due to complacency, creating a new and less safe standard. Over time the same thing happens to that standard and so the process continues until you have a very unsafe standard. If your lucky there is a wake-up call where disaster is narrowly averted. If your not, your dead.
There are some horrifying stories out there of experienced flight crews who have monumentally screwed the pooch through a complete lack of attention to procedures and safety. A large number of them occur in high-end general aviation where owner/pilots have let their standards slide but it can also happen in highly trained crew situations. My introduction to the subject was a story of a RAF pilot who nearly put his Tornado G3 into the ground while trying to work around an undercarriage problem so that they could continue a military exercise.
For a little more on the subject check out this link:
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Profes...on_of_deviance