[codemac]

I really like a recent thing I read about adult development from Robert Kegan. These go in order in his model, and these are kind of adult development levels to "achieve".. which of course itself leads to a discussion of Kegan's work, but here are the interesting ones for adults:

- socialization - your identity is based on your social context, and the society around you

- self-authored - your identity is based on what you've carved out for yourself, and you are in control of it outside of your social constructs.

- self-transformation - your identity is not your own! You see identity as something as movable and constructed as many other objects in your life.

[TeMPOraL]

I feel like going through those "levels" in reverse, increasingly being pushed from "self-authored" by to "socialization", through the usual pressure to conform to what everyone else is doing. It's annoying, to say the least.