You Got Use To The Smell
Employer response can become the center of a career through criticism, recognition, compensation, promotion, or silence. The response gives you information. Career ownership asks you to keep your own evidence and judgment close enough to decide what it means.
When the Evidence Says One Thing and You Still Believe Another
You can have a body of evidence and still let one old career rule run the meeting. This is the piece about what happens when your experience says one thing, your nervous system says another, and you decide which one gets authority.