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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> helpful but not nearly sufficient.) It takes several years to accumulate that experience after you’ve already mastered stage 4 (so it usually does work), and usually you don’t master 4 until mid-20s
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And once you realize 4 can’t be made to work as advertised, you are only at 4.5 which can be several years of hell (although this seems not everyone’s experience) before you get to operate at 5 reasonably reliably, because you need to learn the 5ish skills and there’s no guide
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My personal experience was getting to something 5-ish around puberty, then spending over a decade wondering why everyone was playing weird games where they pretended rationalism worked. /1
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But I had the benefit of being immersed in a society where pomo and such was already well-established. Hadn't heard of Kegan until I read about him on Meaningness several years back. Then *click*. /x
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