The Jeremy Hanson Podcast "Sometimes the Expert Is Wrong: Why You Must Become a Student of Yourself"
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Jeremy Hanson discusses the importance of trusting your own experience over expert credentials in entrepreneurship.
Sometimes the expert is wrong. After twenty years in business, Jeremy Hanson explains how to know when your own experience outranks the credentials in the room.There is a moment that arrives in every long career, and nobody warns you about it. You spend your first years looking for people who know more than you do. You call the manufacturer. You hire the consultant. You defer to the accountant, the agency, the person with more letters behind their name. That is the right instinct when you are starting out, because in the beginning almost everyone does know more than you. But the habit gets installed early and never gets updated. Twenty years later you are still running the software you loaded when you knew nothing.Jeremy opens this episode standing on a fifteen-year-old deck in Missouri, watching a homeowner hold up a printed sheet from a stain manufacturer that contradicts everything two decades of experience is telling him. He already knew he was right. He still almost talked himself out of it.That moment opens onto one of the most useful distinctions an entrepreneur can learn: knowing a product is not the same as knowing the job. The person reading specifications in an office…
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