Stage 1
The impulsive mind
Stage 1 corresponds to
Maslow’s
physiological satisfaction orientation.
People with an impulsive mind perceive and respond by emotion.
In contrast to the thinking mind, the impulsive mind acts spontaneously without consideration for the broader consequences of the action.
Stage 2
The imperial mind
The self-sovereign mind
In stage 2, people focus primarily on their own needs.
In stage 2, people see other people as tools to get their own needs met.
Stage 3
The socialized mind
In stage 3, people have difficulty explaining what they need.
In stage 3, the need people have for approval of others is very high.
A person with a socialized mind seeks alignment between herself / himself and her or his surroundings.
A student with a socialized mind needs to see his or her grade on a test before feeling sure that she or he has successfully mastered a subject.
personal
As a result they spend a high amount of energy trying to avoid hurting other people’s’ feelings.
People with a socialized mind take a lot of
responsibility for how other people view them.
A politician with a socialized mind constructs his or her political identity in order to cohere with the ideas, beliefs, and guidelines delineated by the party he or she is a part of.
A politician with this way of thinking may work to find faults with and criticize other political views.
Stage 4
The self-authoring mind
In stage 4, people can define who they are.
For example, people can define
their personalities.
their values.
emotions they feel.
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In stage 4, people consciously question what is going on around them.
A person, who has a self-authoring mind, tends to be a self-directed, independent thinker.
A person with a self authoring mind will feel fear that she or he falls short of one’s own standards.
A person with a self authoring mind will feel fear that she or he is subject to others’ definitions.
Stage 5
The self-transforming mind
Stage 5 corresponds to Maslow’s selfactualization orientation.
In
question themselves and question authority.
stage 5, people can
A person with a self-transforming mind tends to move away from “either/or” thinking towards a way of thinking which is more “both/and”.
People with a self-transforming mind can understand things from many different perspectives.
In stage 5, people are open to new possibilities and open to adapting / transforming / changing themselves.
People with a self-transforming mind are able to hold contradictions between competing belief systems and become comfortable embracing paradoxes.
People with a self-transforming lens make sense of their professional identities by learning from many different perspectives in order to address increasingly complex problems.
A person with a self-transforming mind may feel fear that he or she is feeling complacent and thinking that he or she has finally “learned it all”.
Sources of inspiration
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