I haven’t heard the focus on the leading and trailing end before but I do have heard the notion of people being at different levels in different area’s of their life before.
In Spiral Dynamics (the Don Beck / Christopher Cowan version and not the Ken Wilber version) there’s a lot of energy spent on analyzing on what level people happen to be in different aspects of their life. Their model of coaching is about getting your level at the various areas of life accessed. I spent a good portion of time talking with somebody who’s trained in the modality and read the book but I never went really deep into it.
You seem to make a claim that it’s useful to focus on the extremes in your post but the arguments that you bring seem to me only to support the usefulness of assuming that there are different stages in different areas of your life.
Do you have a case for why you believe the extremes are particularly important?
I don’t know that they’re more important than everything going on in the middle, but I guess they are interesting in that the trailing edge suggests, to the extent you view development as a goal and being more developed as valuable, the place in need of work, and the leading edge as the greatest extent you should expect out of yourself (for now) and might suggest things you might work on (within a particular developmental model) given where your leading edge is.
There’s some vague intuitiony part of me that says the trailing edge is quite likely to be a bottleneck, and the leading edge is quite likely to be a force multiplier.
If you take that view you mean that gworley’s Kegan Level 2 thinking in romantic relationships is a bottleneck for other areas of his life that aren’t about romantic relationships?
Just to be clear I’m not sure the trailing edge is a bottleneck to development, but it is probably a bottleneck in terms of other things you want to accomplish. For example, by pulling my trailing edge forward around romance I was able to eliminate many sources of anxiety such that now I have basically no chronic anxiety, and I’ve stopped taking an SSRI after 15 years on one.
I haven’t heard the focus on the leading and trailing end before but I do have heard the notion of people being at different levels in different area’s of their life before.
In Spiral Dynamics (the Don Beck / Christopher Cowan version and not the Ken Wilber version) there’s a lot of energy spent on analyzing on what level people happen to be in different aspects of their life. Their model of coaching is about getting your level at the various areas of life accessed. I spent a good portion of time talking with somebody who’s trained in the modality and read the book but I never went really deep into it.
You seem to make a claim that it’s useful to focus on the extremes in your post but the arguments that you bring seem to me only to support the usefulness of assuming that there are different stages in different areas of your life.
Do you have a case for why you believe the extremes are particularly important?
I don’t know that they’re more important than everything going on in the middle, but I guess they are interesting in that the trailing edge suggests, to the extent you view development as a goal and being more developed as valuable, the place in need of work, and the leading edge as the greatest extent you should expect out of yourself (for now) and might suggest things you might work on (within a particular developmental model) given where your leading edge is.
There’s some vague intuitiony part of me that says the trailing edge is quite likely to be a bottleneck, and the leading edge is quite likely to be a force multiplier.
If you take that view you mean that gworley’s Kegan Level 2 thinking in romantic relationships is a bottleneck for other areas of his life that aren’t about romantic relationships?
Just to be clear I’m not sure the trailing edge is a bottleneck to development, but it is probably a bottleneck in terms of other things you want to accomplish. For example, by pulling my trailing edge forward around romance I was able to eliminate many sources of anxiety such that now I have basically no chronic anxiety, and I’ve stopped taking an SSRI after 15 years on one.
Yes exactly. I had this very bottleneck around relationships and communication at one point in my development.