How many stages in human life?

One:Mimicry

As children, the way we’re wired to learn is by watching and mimicking others.

First, we learn to do physical chops like walking and talking. Also, we develop social chops by watching and mimicking our peers around us. Also, eventually, in late nonage, we learn to acclimatize to our culture by observing the rules and morals around us and trying to bear them in such a way that's generally considered respectable by society.

The thing of Stage One is to educate us on how to serve within society so that we can be independent, tone-sufficient grown-ups. The idea is that the grown-ups in the community around us help us to reach this point by supporting our capability to make opinions and take action ourselves

But some grown-ups and community members around us stink.1 They discipline us for our independence. They don’t support our opinions.

And thus we don’t develop autonomy. We get stuck in Stage One, endlessly mimicking those around us, trying to please all so that we might not be judged

In a normal, healthy existence, Stage One will last until late nonage and the early majority.3 For some people, it may last further than the majority. A select many wake up one day at age 45 realizing they’ve noway actually lived for themselves and wonder where the hell the times went.

Two:Discovery

In Stage One, we learn to fit in with the people and culture around us. Stage Two is about learning what makes us different from the people and culture around us. Stage Two requires us to begin making opinions for ourselves, test ourselves, and understand ourselves and what makes us unique

Stage Two involves a lot of trial and error and trial.

We experiment with living in new places, hanging out with new people, imbibing new substances, and playing with new people’s perforations.

In Stage Two, I ran out and visited fifty countries. My family’s Stage Two was diving headfirst into the political system in Washington, DC. Everyone’s Stage Two is slightly different because every one of us is slightly different.

Stage Two is a process of tone - discovery, we try effects. Some of them go well. Some of them don’t. The thing is to stick with the bones that go well for a while and move on.

Three:Commitment

Once you’ve pushed your boundaries and either plant your limitations (calisthenics, the culinary trades) or plant the dwindling returns of certain conditioning (partying, videotape games, masturbation) also you're left with what’s both important to you, what you’re not terrible at.

Now it’s time to make your dent in the world.

Stage Three is the great connection of one’s life.

Out go the musketeers who are draining you and holding you back.

Out go the conditioning and pursuits that are a careless waste of time.

Out go the old dreams that are easily not coming true any time soon.

Also, you double down on what you’re stylish at and what's stylish for you. You twice down on the most important connections in your life. You twice down on a single charge in life, whether that’s to work on the world’s energy extremity or to be a bitching digital artist or to come an expert in smarts or have a bunch of potties, drooling children.

Whatever it is, Stage Three is when you get it done.

Four:Legacy

People arrive into Stage Four having spent nearly half a century investing themselves in what they believed was meaningful and important.

They did great effects, worked hard, earned everything they have, perhaps started a family or a charity or a political or artistic revolution or two, and now they’re done.

They've reached the age where their energy and circumstances no longer allow them to pursue their purpose any farther.

The thing of Stage Four also becomes not to produce a heritage as much as simply making sure that heritage lasts beyond one’s death.

This could be a commodity as simple as supporting and advising the children and living vicariously through them.

It could mean passing on their systems and work to a protégé or apprentice. It could also mean getting more politically active to maintain their values in a society that they no longer.