Keep an optimistic, disciplined outlook and continue contributing as long as you can.

Build a broad intellectual life; connect mathematics, statistics, and applications rather than isolating them.

Do your best work with integrity, honesty, and respect for evidence.

Maintain humility about your achievements and remain open to correction and improvement.

Let useful, real-world problems inspire theory; good statistics should serve science and society.

Focus on fundamental ideas and seek elegant, general principles rather than superficial results.