Ecstasis Affecting People And Their Life Styles

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Towards the end of chapter four the authors bring to light the idea of ecstasis effecting people and their life styles. They begin by saying, "After adolescence, the thinking went, adults were pretty much fully baked. Sure, we could learn technical skills, like going to business school of picking up a musical instrument, but out ability to add psychological capacities...was believed to be pretty much over adn done with by the time we'd graduated from college.(76)" In other words, It was previously thought that adults were done learning meaningful lessons after college but after Bob Kegan of Harvard psychology tracked a group of individuals through their life he learned that wasnt always the case. He found that some adults were "Self-Transforming"

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