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[dark_phoenix54]

In Over Our Heads: The Mental Demands of Modern Life, by Robert Kegan. Harvard University Press, 1994 I picked this book up after a psychologist said it was an incredible read, one that made her do a lot of thinking. She was right; Kegan presents some ideas that I’ve not encountered elsewhere. He proposed that there are stages of human development

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[rafqa]

Who's in stage 5? Probably Robert Kegan.

[dark_phoenix54]

Hah! No doubt. Probably a person would have to be to intuit the existence of stage 5.

[houseboatonstyx]

Sounds like the kind of book I'd read backwards. Well, not page by page, but chapter by chapter, maybe.

[dark_phoenix54]

I think you might be right in doing it that way; the last two chapters were where I actually started to understand more of it. If I'd seen some of what's there first, I could have probably make more sense out of the stages.

[tenshikurai9]

So is 4th order creating your own world view?

[dark_phoenix54]

I think so. To tell the truth, I was confused about the 4th and 5th levels. He wasn't real clear about those. The book was smarter than I am.