Understanding Magical Thinking and Re-Enchanting The World [Repost] (#89)

You might be wondering why bother learning about early, preconventional ego development if most adults are long past it. Here's why.This is a snippet from my Wednesday 9/9 episode, Pre-Conventional St...

13 Sep 7min

Preconventional ego development takes us from being newborns with zero identity and zero meaning-making capacity to being functional members of the society. This is a huge transformation, and constitu...

10 Sep 5min

We continue our series on Cook-Greuter's Ego Development Theory by covering the Pre-Conventional levels.These represent the base of the human being, the beginning of a self, the beginning of being abl...

9 Sep 57min

We tend to think that higher ego development simply means being happier. Our logic is that greater self-awareness, motivations and flexibility, a more complex worldview, and a closer relationship to t...

8 Sep 6min

Ego development simply means how the ego (i.e. our meaning-making function) complexifies over time. As it complexifies, so do our autonomy, freedom, flexibility, self-awareness, tolerance for differen...

6 Sep 5min

This month we are studying ego development as framed by Cook-Greuter, so we ought to know what the ego is. It probably isn't what you think. This is a snippet from my Wednesday 2/9, Intro to Cook-Greu...

3 Sep 5min

We see the world, explain things, make meaning and find coherence in predictable ways as we mentally develop. This is not a random process. This is a well-studied and understood process.We go through ...

2 Sep 1h 3min

Beyond the personality typology system we prefer, what do they really tell us about who we are? What are the deeper lessons?This is a snippet from my Wednesday 1/9 episode, Making Sense of Personality...

1 Sep 6min