4. People with an impulsive mind perceive and respond by emotion.
In contrast to the thinking mind, the impulsive mind acts spontaneously
without consideration for the broader consequences of the action.
9. In stage 3, people have difficulty explaining
what they need.
10. In stage 3, the need people have for
approval of others is very high.
11. A person with a socialized mind seeks alignment between
herself / himself and her or his surroundings.
12. A student with a socialized mind needs to see his or her grade on a
test before feeling sure that she or he has successfully mastered a
subject.
13. People with a socialized mind take a lot of personal
responsibility for how other people view them.
As a result they spend a high amount of energy trying to avoid
hurting other people’s’ feelings.
14. A politician with a socialized mind constructs his or her political identity
in order to cohere with the ideas, beliefs, and guidelines
delineated by the party he or she is a part of.
A politician with this way of thinking may work to find faults with and
criticize other political views.
16. In stage 4, people can define who they are.
For example, people can define
their personalities.
their values.
emotions they feel.
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17. In stage 4, people consciously question
what is going on around them.
18. A person, who has a self-authoring mind, tends to be
a self-directed, independent thinker.
19. A person with a self authoring mind will feel fear that
she or he falls short of one’s own standards.
20. A person with a self authoring mind will feel fear that
she or he is subject to others’ definitions.
23. In stage 5, people can question themselves
and question authority.
24. A person with a self-transforming mind tends to move away
from “either/or” thinking towards a way of thinking
which is more “both/and”.
25. People with a self-transforming mind can understand
things from many different perspectives.
26. In stage 5, people are open to new possibilities and
open to adapting / transforming / changing
themselves.
27. People with a self-transforming mind are able to hold
contradictions between competing belief
systems and become comfortable embracing paradoxes.
28. People with a self-transforming lens make sense of their professional
identities by learning from many different perspectives
in order to address increasingly complex problems.
29. A person with a self-transforming mind may feel fear that he or
she is feeling complacent and thinking that he or she
has finally “learned it all”.