It's not very easy to explain like you're five (it's like he says, to understand this requries more "up-front investment"). Maybe look in Kegan's wikipedia to

It's not very easy to explain like you're five (it's like he says, to understand this requries more "up-front investment"). Maybe look in Kegan's wikipedia to have a better overview of what they mean by self-authoring mind (stage four in the big table) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Kegan#The_Evolving_Self https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Kegan#The_Evolving_Self