Worldview LensPreoperational
Strings sentences into simple stories; simple deductions; no stable logic of classes.
How it sounds
It rained because I forgot my umbrella, and then everything went wrong.
Signs in writing
- story chains ('and then… and then')
- magical or associative causality
- contradictions unnoticed
Values
stories · wishes
Fears
chaos
Staying healthy at this stage
- stories that make sense of events
Growth edge
- check stories against simple facts and counting
How to be heard at this stage
- tell a story rather than argue
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
- Tribal / Magical Spiral Dynamics
- Obedience & punishment Kohlberg
- Magenta Wilber
See the stage of anything you read. Worldview Lens is a Chrome extension that reads posts, threads, articles and books through 9 stage models, including this one, and helps you say things so people at any stage can hear them.
Add to Chrome, free How scoring worksStage descriptions are paraphrased summaries for orientation, written for Worldview Lens; they are not the official scoring manuals. Example sentences were written to illustrate each stage.