Early Ego Development = Your Psyche's Foundation
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
What Really is Preconventional Ego Development?
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
Pre-Conventional Stages of Ego Development by Cook-Greuter (#161)
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
Is Higher Development Always Better?
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
What is Ego Development?
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
What is the Ego?
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
Intro to Cook-Greuter's Ego Development Theory (#160)
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
What Do Personality Typologies Really Tell Us?
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
