Robert Kegan explaining his adult developmental theory, with @dthorson
“If you want to be Stage 5 because all the cool kids are, that’s a Stage 3 aspiration. If you want it because Stage 5 is the Correct way of thinking, that’s a Stage 4 aspiration.”https://anchor.fm/emerge/episodes/Robert-Kegan---The-Five-Stages-of-Adult-Development-And-Why-You-Probably-Arent-Stage-5-eb8gug …
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Possible there’s been no serious data collection since the mid-80s, and Kegan’s “not before 40” assertion rests on that single old study. Results might be different 35 years later. Also I see meta-rationality showing up at ~28 in STEM geeks, who were not in his sample afaik.
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Alternatively, it’s plausible that Kegan &co’s instrument measures something different than other developmental theorists’. They emphasize emotional and relational complexity, where others emphasize reasoning complexity, although both include both and see them as linked.
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It’s a common observation that STEM geeks develop cognitive skills fast and lag in emotional & relational skills. Developing in different domains at different rates is called “décallage” (lag) in the literature. Kegan seems less willing to acknowledge décallage than some others.
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Maybe you really can’t be emotionally and relationally meta-systematic before age 40, although you can develop meta-rationality over a few years starting mid/late 20s. (Research suggests developing cognitive meta-systematicity (= meta-rationality) takes 6-10 years to complete.)
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Understanding how adults continue to develop new, deeper, more powerful cognitive skills, through their 30s at minimum, seems enormously important. Research on this is scarce, and—to be blunt—much of it is low-quality. I’d love for this to change. Big opportunity!
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*sigh* But they've published several business management books, and I assume have a consulting practice.
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Yes. I’m pretty annoyed by this, as you can tell :) Although I think the business books may have great value, and they may have concluded correctly that they can be more useful by doing that than by sciencing.
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I'd like to know of any other material on the SOI practice. Could we perhaps post-modernistically deconstruct and then reconstruct something that we can fluidly share?
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