Worldview LensImperial mind
Subject to own needs and interests; others are means to ends.
How it sounds
I only help him because then he owes me.
Signs in writing
- instrumental view of others
- concrete wants
- rules as external constraints
Values
getting needs met
Fears
being controlled
Staying healthy at this stage
- clear, fair exchanges
Growth edge
- hold another person's feelings alongside your own needs
How to be heard at this stage
- show the concrete payoff
The same altitude in other models
Mapped by altitude, not measured: models track different lines.
- Opportunist Cook-Greuter
- Self-protective Loevinger
- Primary Commons
- Mythic-Literal Fowler
- Opportunist Torbert
- Power / Egocentric Spiral Dynamics
- Obedience & punishment Kohlberg
- Red Wilber
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