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Robert Kegan's constructive-developmental theory is the academic framework closest to the three-stage Default → Shallow → Deep ambition progression at the core of [[deep-ambition-book-thesis]]. Where Erikson mapped psychosocial stages of identity across the life span, Kegan mapped **orders of consciousness** — qualitatively different ways adults make meaning — and provided the research methodology (the Subject-Object Interview) to assess which order a person is currently operating from. The framework matters because it gives empirical weight to a claim that otherwise sounds moralistic: that mo…

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