I’m not sure what you have in mind by “skipping” here, since the Kegan and other developmental models explicitly are based on the idea that there can be no skipping because each higher level is built out of new ways of combining abstractions from the lower levels.
I have noticed ways in which people can have lumpy integration of the key skills of a level (and have noticed this in various ways in myself); is that the sort of thing you have in mind by “skipping”, like made it to 4 without ever having fully integrated the level 3 insights.
I generally think that mindspace is pretty vast, and am predisposed to be skeptical of the claim that there’s only one path to a certain way of thinking. I buy that most people follow a certain path, but wouldn’t be suprised if for instance there’s a person in history who never went directly from Kegan 3 to 4.5 by never finding a value system that could stand up to their chaotic environment.
David Chapman says that achieving a particular level means that the skills associated with it become logically possible for you, which is distinct from actually mastering those skills; and that it’s possible for you to e.g. get to stage 4 while only having poor mastery of the skills associated with stage 3. So I would interpret “skipped stage N” as shorthand for “got to stage N+X without developing any significant mastery of stage N skills”.
I’m not sure what you have in mind by “skipping” here, since the Kegan and other developmental models explicitly are based on the idea that there can be no skipping because each higher level is built out of new ways of combining abstractions from the lower levels.
I have noticed ways in which people can have lumpy integration of the key skills of a level (and have noticed this in various ways in myself); is that the sort of thing you have in mind by “skipping”, like made it to 4 without ever having fully integrated the level 3 insights.
I generally think that mindspace is pretty vast, and am predisposed to be skeptical of the claim that there’s only one path to a certain way of thinking. I buy that most people follow a certain path, but wouldn’t be suprised if for instance there’s a person in history who never went directly from Kegan 3 to 4.5 by never finding a value system that could stand up to their chaotic environment.
David Chapman says that achieving a particular level means that the skills associated with it become logically possible for you, which is distinct from actually mastering those skills; and that it’s possible for you to e.g. get to stage 4 while only having poor mastery of the skills associated with stage 3. So I would interpret “skipped stage N” as shorthand for “got to stage N+X without developing any significant mastery of stage N skills”.