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The Great Updraft

Ross Edwards

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Friday · 6 min
Bitesize Summary of the Ego-Aware Stage
The defining features of the Ego-Aware stage of ego development, which we cover in great detail in my Wednesday 21/10 episode, The Ego-Aware Stage of Ego Development (#167)
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#167
Wednesday · 1 hr 6 min
The Ego-Aware Stage of Ego Development (#167)
We discuss the Ego-Aware stage of ego development, AKA the Magician, which signifies another huge paradigm shift.This is the first postautonomous or post-postconventional stage in Cook-Greuter's model, and the eighth stage overall. It constitutes at...
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Tuesday · 7 min
Your Field Guide for Identifying Strategists
Here are some key Strategist personality traits that will help you spot people operating from this stage. This is a snippet from my 14/10 episode Strategist Stage of Ego Development (#166)
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October 18 · 6 min
Why The Strategist Stage Gets Its Name
The Strategist stage of ego development gets its name primarily from the Strategist's complex, long-term, systemic thinking process, its sense of mission, and its ability to integrate multiple perspectives.This is a snippet from my Wednesday 14/10...
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October 15 · 2 min
How the Strategist & Pluralist Differ
The Strategist and Pluralist levels, though both Postconventional, are rather different levels of development, with distinct senses of self, worldviews, motivations and complexity of mind.This is a snippet from my Wednesday 14/10 episode, Strategist...
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October 14 · 55 min
Strategist Stage of Ego Development (#166)
In this episode, we're exploring the seventh stage of ego development: the Strategist, also known as the Autonomous stage. This is where we begin to see the bigger picture: not just our own development, but of humanity too. Strategists think in...
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October 13 · 2 min
Opening Pandora's Box of Truth
At the Pluralist level, we become open to many more truth systems than before.Until this level, truth is rather simple. We tend to adopt one truth system and reject all others.Now we can no longer do this. This is both a huge expansion and potentially...
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October 11 · 5 min
Beyond the Norm: Postconventional Ego Development
What does it mean to move beyond conventional development? In this snippet, I explain how postconventional development involves seeing through your cultural conditioning, questioning the assumptions that shape your worldview, and recognising the...
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October 8 · 4 min
The Great Postconventional Watershed
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...
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#165
October 7 · 1 hr
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...
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October 4 · 5 min
The Great Awakening to Self-Help
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)
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October 1 · 1 min
The Achiever Level in a Nutshell
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)
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#164
September 30 · 1 hr 5 min
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...
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September 29 · 17 min
Meet My Textbook EXPERT Family Member
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...
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September 27 · 3 min
The Heart of the Expert Mind: The Need to Know
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...
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September 24 · 4 min
The Expert Stage: Why It's Called "Expert"
"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...
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#163
September 23 · 1 hr 12 min
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...
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September 21 · 6 min
Conformist Stage of Ego Development: Key Personality Traits
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...
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September 20 · 46 min
The Conformist Level of Ego Development - Part 2/2 (#162.2)
In this two-part episode, we describe the Conformist level of ego development, or Stage 3 in Cook-Greuter's Ego Development Theory.At this stage, we are defined by the groups we identify with. Our identity is literally fused and merged with them. Our...
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September 18 · 5 min
What Does Conformist Mean?
Here we discuss why the "Conformist" Stage 3 of Ego Dev is called as such. Perhaps we could sum it up very simply by saying that at this stage we are defined by others.This is a snippet from my Wednesday 16/9 episode, The Conformist Level of Ego...
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