Tag: formal operational

The relationship between beliefs and occurring

Creating a new theory or change technique is an interesting process for me. I usually first get only a very vague sense of an entire idea. I can barely grasp it; I just have a sense of it, like an object in the fog where I sense “something out there,” but the outlines and details of that “something” are very vague. I have an intuitive sense that there’s something useful there, but I’m not sure precisely what it is. Then, over time, little by little the fog starts to clear away until I am able to distinguish aspects of the [...]

You can always keep growing

We all know that children develop through stages—such as infant, toddler, adolescent, teenager—where how they think and their ability to handle more complex issues improves.  But few people are aware that adults also are capable of moving through higher and still higher stages of development.  While virtually all children pass through these stages pretty much automatically, not all adults do.  Many get stuck along the way. In recent years scientists have discovered that the brain is plastic and is capable of change and development until the day we die.  Three major stages of adult development have been identified by researchers, [...]

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