Find the confusion your stage is working on
Use O’Fallon’s list of stage-specific confusions to locate the blind spot that is currently live for you.
Perché funziona
O’Fallon (2020) proposes that each stage begins with a characteristic confusion the person cannot yet see — for example, at 3.5 confusing a visualized future with the reality the goal will bring, or at 4.5 seeing how others project onto you but not how you project onto them. The confusion resolves only as the person becomes able to see it. Naming candidate confusions gives a person something specific to look for instead of a general aim to "grow".
Come farlo
- Read these confusions from O’Fallon’s 2020 table slowly: 2.5 — believing your choices are individual when they track your group; 3.0 — not yet telling your new individual identity apart from the group one you are leaving; 3.5 — mistaking the imagined future a goal will bring for what reaching it will actually be like; 4.0 — taking insights that formed through group process or social conditioning as purely your own, or as synchronicity; 4.5 — seeing others’ projections on you but not yours on them.
- Mark the one that produces the most discomfort or recognition. Recognition is a clue, not a diagnosis.
- For two weeks, write down each time you catch that pattern after the fact.
- Notice whether the gap between the event and your catching it shrinks.
Prove scientifiche
The confusions are listed in O’Fallon’s 2020 paper, derived from qualitative analysis of sentence completions in the STAGES research database (she reports a 1.1-million-word study). They are a proposed theory, described by the author as preliminary and evolving. (anecdotal)
The confusions come from the model’s author’s qualitative reading of assessment data and have not been independently tested. Use them as prompts for reflection, not as a stage diagnosis.
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Errore comune
Picking the confusion that sounds most advanced. The useful one is the one you keep catching yourself in after the fact.
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Altre pratiche per Terri O’Fallon’s STAGES Model, Made Practical
- Notice what your attention treats as real objects
Sort a day’s concerns into concrete, subtle, and awareness-level objects to see which tier you mostly live in.
- Shine a new capacity on the old confusion
Use whatever you can newly do — reflect on your thinking, notice context — to look straight at the confusion instead of around it.
- Turn your view back on yourself
Take the perspective you can now hold of others and turn it around so you see yourself from it.
- Practice the orientation your stage is not leaning toward
If your stage leans individual, deliberately practice the collective view, and the reverse.
- Walk an idea through four ways of holding it
Take one hard idea from receptive, to either/or, to both/and, to seeing how the two sides define each other.
- Use a scored assessment instead of self-typing
If you want to know your stage, take a sentence completion test scored by a trained rater rather than matching yourself to descriptions.
- Expect fallback and meet it without judgment
Plan for the times you make meaning from an earlier stage under stress, and treat them as information.
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