For practical use the best exposition is his book “Right Weight Right Mind”. Ostensibly this is about weight loss but it applies to almost any change process. A single data point is that it seems to have solved my weight control problem when nothing else has worked so well over a 25 year struggle. What impresses me is the ease with which I am losing weight whereas before it was a gritted teeth tough struggle.
I am not applying it to other things such as akrasia—specifically getting in 4 hours of really hard work each and every day (which I think is the human limit).
Of course it is not an answer to every problem but often when change proves impossible there are other competing commitments and Kegan’s process is a really good way to uncover and deal with these.
This comes out of his work on personal growth and development which I think is also something special. Summary here and some links
For practical use the best exposition is his book “Right Weight Right Mind”. Ostensibly this is about weight loss but it applies to almost any change process. A single data point is that it seems to have solved my weight control problem when nothing else has worked so well over a 25 year struggle. What impresses me is the ease with which I am losing weight whereas before it was a gritted teeth tough struggle.
I am not applying it to other things such as akrasia—specifically getting in 4 hours of really hard work each and every day (which I think is the human limit).
Summary here https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_hpownP1A4PS0JkMzZjelQzUzA/view?usp=sharing
Of course it is not an answer to every problem but often when change proves impossible there are other competing commitments and Kegan’s process is a really good way to uncover and deal with these.
This comes out of his work on personal growth and development which I think is also something special. Summary here and some links
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_hpownP1A4PdERFVXJDVE5SRnc/view?usp=sharing .