We like to believe experience makes us wiser.
But Kevin McCarthy will tell you that sometimes, it does the opposite.

After decades in leadership, he found himself standing in a courtroom, facing prison time for a crime he didn’t intend to commit. What followed wasn’t just a story about injustice it was a lesson in awareness.

As Kevin says, “The higher we go in leadership, the more blind spots we develop.”

We start believing our own stories. We stop asking questions. We stop listening.

This is the quiet danger of the expert fallacy when the confidence that once helped us succeed begins to cloud our judgment.

True leadership isn’t about knowing more. It’s about staying curious enough to see what we might be missing.