Hierarchical Complexity · stage 5 · Magenta altitude

Nominal

Single words used as names for things.

How it sounds

Dog. Mine. Go.

Signs in writing

isolated words or names
no sentences

Values

naming

Fears

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Staying healthy at this stage

rich naming of the world

Growth edge

connect words into simple sentences

How to be heard at this stage

point and name

The same altitude in other models

Mapped by altitude, not measured: models track different lines.

Impulsive Cook-Greuter
Impulsive Loevinger
Intuitive-Projective Fowler
Imperial mind Kegan
Opportunist Torbert
Survival Spiral Dynamics
Obedience & punishment Kohlberg
Infrared Wilber

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