>>Interestingly, I just spent two days on a consulting contract where that is exactly what I was doing. The client asked me to spend two days with them and to let them pick my brains as far as they chose to go. I did it and they, I hope, learned a lot. Did that make them become me, nope. Did I lose anything in the deal, nope, I still have all my expereince and knowledge. They got some of it, but they paid me for it. Hopefully, other clients will pay for some of it again in the future, heck that client may even call me in the future to do the same thing again so they can get more of my experience and knowledge.
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Doug,

But we can ALL easily inherit Jim's qualities, though we may never catch up to his knowledge because he has a head start.

DEFINE CLASS JimB AS CUSTOM
    AlwaysLearning = .T.
    *!* More properties here
    FUNCTION GetNewKnowledge
        *!* Secret code here
    ENDFUNC
ENDDEFINE

*!* Note how VFP's full inheritance plays here
oCindy = CREATEOBJECT("JimB")
oCindy.GetNewKnowledge()
oDoug  = CREATEOBJECT("JimB")
oDoug.GetNewKnowledge()