Learning about others’ frames of reference and ways of thinking can be difficult because it requires suspending your own preferred approach (“making your own thinking object” in Kegan’s words). It can...

Learning about others’ frames of reference and ways of thinking can be difficult because it requires suspending your own preferred approach (“making your own thinking object” in Kegan’s words). It can help to be aware that you need to get inside someone else’s head in order to understand these models. Identify a way of knowing that you find implausible (such as the unequivocal knowing of a first-year student or the radical subjectivism of a coworker), then try to construct the internal logic of this approach. Based on these models, what assumptions about knowledge and knowing might be guiding this person’s approach? How are these assumptions similar to and different from your own assumptions about knowledge and knowing?