Developed by Robert Kegan, it states that people go through 5 stages of development.
- The impulsive mind (early childhood)
- Imperial mind (normally adolescence)
- Socialized mind (where most of the adult population stays)
- we experience ourselves as a function of how others experience us.
- Self-authoring mind
- we define who we are and no longer negotiate our identity to get acceptance (of course there's still concession, but not on core principles)
- Self-transforming mind
- come to accept that we'll always be changing (kind of like the Buddhist idea of constant change). We can free ourselves from ourselves, in a way
Key concepts to understand the stages:
- Transformation is a constant. A lot of our lives is accommodating an ever-growing definition of the world (On being an adult)
- Subject-Object shift
Many parts of it sound a whole lot like Stoic principles (i.e, The Stoic Trichotomy of Control)
Morad (2020) introduced to me the adult development theory, which I came across while writing About leadership.