Robert Kegan, reports, “When we began our work, the accepted picture of mental development was akin to the picture of physical development—your growth was thought fundamentally to end by your twenties.”8 But after a generation of research, a revolution in understanding the growth potential of adults overtook the world of developmental psychology. Kegan describes a little of it: When we began reporting the results of our research in the 1980s, suggesting that some (though not all) adults seemed to undergo qualitative advances in their mental complexity akin to earlier, well-documented quantum
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