An Intro to Ego Development Theory by Susanne Cook-Greuter (EDT Summary)
learning, an inevitable byproduct of the process of growing up, takes us not closer to but further away from our creative source.
Maria Popova • Beethoven’s Advice on Being an Artist: His Touching Letter to a Little Girl Who Sent Him Fan Mail
"No one is just a stage. And no measure can explain what it is like to be an individual human. What it is like to walk in your shoes, look through your eyes, feel your feelings and think your thoughts etc."
In fact, getting away from the self may well be an essential part of developing wisdom.
Frank Forencich • The Art is Long: Big Health and the New Warrior Activist
People also have to decide what kinds of relationships they want: ones that bolster their egos or ones that challenge them to grow?
Carol S. Dweck • Mindset - Updated Edition: Changing The Way You think To Fulfil Your Potential
A great number of scholars—psychologists, philosophers, and anthropologists, among others—have dissected the journey of human consciousness. They found that in the roughly 100,000-year history of humanity, we have gone through a number of successive stages. At every stage we made a leap in our abilities—cognitively, morally, and psychologically—to
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