A much newer colleague is teaching me our new software, and I keep trying to prove I’m not behind

She showed me a shortcut, and I replied, “Yes, the old system could do that too.” I hadn’t known how to do it in either system.

I’ve worked in the archive for seventeen years. My colleague joined last autumn and has been asked to show me the new cataloguing tool. She explains things clearly. I keep interrupting with background about how we used to work, partly because it’s relevant and partly because being the learner makes me uncomfortable.

Yesterday we spent twenty minutes on a screen I still couldn’t use alone. I suspect I was too busy proving I understood the job to learn how the buttons worked.

How do I reset this without making her responsible for reassuring me? I want my experience to remain useful, but I don’t want it to become the reason I can’t accept a lesson.