When we see that we are not made up by the other's experience, we then have the capacity not to take responsibility for what is now genuinely and for the first time not ours. And as a result, we can get just as close to the other's experience (even the other's experience of how dissapointing, enraging, or disapprovable we are!) without any need to react defensively to it or be guiltily compliant with it.


In Over Our Heads: The Mental Demands of Modern Life (ed. Harvard University Press, 1995) - ISBN: 9780674445888

Robert Kegan Quotes

When we see that we are not made up by the other's experience, we then have the capacity not to take responsibility for what is now genuinely and for ...

When we see that we are not made up by the other's experience, we then have the capacity not to take responsibility for what is now genuinely and for ...

When we see that we are not made up by the other's experience, we then have the capacity not to take responsibility for what is now genuinely and for ...

When we see that we are not made up by the other's experience, we then have the capacity not to take responsibility for what is now genuinely and for ...