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Review of In Over Our Heads by Robert Kegan
Use these few brief excerpts to self-assess how useful these topics are to you
Review of In Over Our Heads: The Mental Demands of Modern Life by Robert Kegan
Not everyone will be interested or benefitted from discussing a more workable model of adult development.
To self-assess how beneficial these topics are for you, read the next few, brief excerpts. If these interest you, go on to read the review and/or check out the links the excerpts are from.
Summary excerpts ~
Einstein: We cannot solve the problems we have created from the level or order of thinking from which they were created (paraphrase).
Orders of Consciousness — The Most Important Idea In the World (That No One Knows About) …
Dr. Kegan says, “We have not really fully metabolized the notion that adulthood itself is a period of development.”
In other words, human development isn’t just for kids and moody teenagers — rather, it’s a life-long journey. This is the missing piece of the puzzle, the all-important Rosetta Stone we need in order to make sense of our 21st-century world, to find solutions for our most pressing global problems, and to communicate those solutions in a way that…