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The Pluralist stage marks both a stage shift and the Conventional-Postconventional shift AND the move into the second half of the developmental arc.
This is a huge watershed in your development and life trajectory.
This is a snippet from my Wednesday 7/10 episode, Individualist Stage of Ego Development (#165)
In this episode, I explore the Pluralist/Individualist stage of development, the first truly post-conventional stage.
We look at what happens when you begin questioning the beliefs, values and assumptions you inherited, seeing reality from multiple perspectives, and discovering a much more complex and subjective inner world.
I also explore its potential pitfalls: relativism, indecision, cynicism and the loss of a stable sense of meaning.
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The Achiever level is when we usually get involved - or obsessed - with self-help for the first time. This fits very well with the typical Achiever traits.
This is a snippet from my Wednesday 30/9 episode, The Achiever: Stage 4 of Ego Development (#164)
You could sum up the Achiever level in the two points that I make here. This is the heart of this level's psyche and behaviour.
This is a snippet from my Wednesday 30/9 episode, The Achiever: Stage 4 of Ego Development (#164)
The Achiever level of ego development is where our identity becomes fully differentiated from others and our environment.
At this level, we derive meaning from achieving goals, getting things done, improving themselves. We find our truth from science and rationality. We see ourselves as independent agents with our own likes, strengths, desires and choices.
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I know a person who is a textbook, textbook example of the Expert. Here I give several examples of the Expert stage showing up in them. This makes the theory extremely concrete and will help you identify this stage in others and yourself.
This is a snippet from my Wednesday 23/9 episode, The Expert Stage 3/4 of Ego Development (#163)
There is one simple driver behind the entire Expert stage of ego development: "I must know", "I should know".
This one trait explains most of their personality and behaviour.
This is a snippet from my Wednesday 23/9 episode, The Expert Stage 3/4 of Ego Development (#163)
"No one can tell an Expert anything they don't know already."
Let's explain why the Expert stage gets its name. Perhaps Cook-Grueter said it best when she described the Expert's belief that they know everything.
This is a snippet from my Wednesday 23/9 episode, The Expert Stage 3/4 of Ego Development (#163)
This is the Expert stage of ego development - the second of three Conventional levels, and the fifth stage of 10 overall.
We can best sum it up by saying that the Expert's identity is fused with their knowledge. They define themselves via their expertise.
The downside is that they can be extremely rigid and touchy in this regard. "No one can tell an Expert anything they don't know already," as Cook-Greuter puts it.
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Some telltale signs of the Conformist stage: sensitivity to criticism, dependence on authority, and they champion their chosen group's values and motifs.
This is a snippet from my Wednesday 16th episode, The Conformist Level of Ego Development - Part 2/2 (#162.2)
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