Young researchers should not be afraid to challenge conventional wisdom.
"A good sermon is one side of a passionate conversation."
I think that age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
Data is the new oil. It's valuable, but if unrefined it cannot really be used. It has to be changed into gas, plastic, chemicals, etc to create a valuable entity that drives profitable activity; so must data be broken down, analyzed for it to have value.