物换星移
作者：Miles Seecharan
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由于前阵子大家讨论的一直是英国脱欧准备的话题，因此我预计'过渡'将成为下一个关键词。
心理学家丹尼尔莱文森比大多数人更能反映生活的转变。他在20世纪70年代与各种社会经济背景的男性研究发现了一个可预测的秩序，以应对所有人生活中发生的变化（类似的关于女性生活的研究之后也会有）。
在他的书籍“男性的生活季节”中记载的成人适应性发展模型详细透露了他们生活中的7到10年间的成长阶段：
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22-28岁 - 进入成人世界 - 最初的工作选择，爱情和生活方式
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33-40岁 - “安定下来” - 攀登工作，权力，社会等级
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45-50岁 - “进入中年” - 在重新评估你'迄今为止的生活'之后，努力研究新的生活结构，或改变自己的生活结构
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55-60岁 - “成年中期的高潮” - 更多地关注遗产
这每一个阶段都是4到5年的过渡时期，在英国脱欧时期，这些转变往往是动荡不定的。它们涉及到已经达成或尚未达到的目标，为新的生命体系做出选择，然后开始研究这些选择所需要的变化。在生活的所有过渡阶段都会感受到混乱和瘫痪的感觉。的确如此，某个阶段可以如此戏剧化，甚至在英语中也有自己的特殊名称 - “中年危机”。
对我来说，莱文森（Levinson）的作品与GTD®理论中的'专注的高度'模型有了互补。这一模型用于创造未来的愿景并思考人们试图在时间阶段中实现的目标（即3到5年的愿景，12-18个月的目标等）。鉴于专注的高度®模型，它有助于澄清下一步行动，Levinson的模型提供了一个高层次的视角，展示你在整个人生旅途中的哪个位置。因此，它可以帮助你思考如何随着时间的推移，如何处理因个人发展需求而不可避免的变化。，因为随着大自然，有机生活的变化开始发生，这可以作为下一步行动的决定因素。
我最初是在做指导教练时偶尔看到了莱文森的作品。有证据表明，企业中的角色转换会在指导的帮助下调整地更快。原因之一是因为它解决了转型带来的内部和外部挑战，为你提供了思考和关注的空间。 GTD®也以类似的方式提供帮助，创造思路清晰的空间，让你专注于“专注的高度模型”和每周检视®进行定期审查和反思实践。
那么你在人生旅程中的哪个位置呢？踏上新的人生阶段？即将到来的个人或事业转型？根据莱文森的观点，你不可避免地会经历所有不同的'生活季节'，但是想要取得成功并非不可能。这取决于很多事情 - 做出正确的选择，你的勤奋努力，有时则是天时地利人和 - 但无论哪种方式，无论你在努力什么，如果你意识到你在哪里，专注于你想要的位置，并朝着正确的方向坚持采取明确的步骤。
English Version
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Things Change
by Miles Seecharan
Since it’s been a while in which our public discourse has been dominated by preparations for Brexit, I’m expecting that ‘TRANSITION’ is going to be one of the words of the year next month when such things are announced.
The psychologist Daniel Levinson reflected on life’s transitions more than most. His research with men of various socio-economic backgrounds in the 1970s discovered a predictable and orderly sequence to the changes that occurred in all their lives (similar work on women’s lives came later).
The model of adult psychosocial development he created – documented in his book ‘The Seasons of a Man’s Life’ – revealed specific seven to 10 year periods of growth in their lives;
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22-28 years old – ‘Entering the adult world’ – initial choices of work, love and lifestyle
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33-40 years old – ‘Settling down’ – climbing the ladder of work, power, society
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45-50 years old – ‘Entering middle adulthood’ – working on a new or modified life structure after re-appraising your ‘life so far’
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55-60 years old – ‘Culmination of middle adulthood’ – focussing more on legacy
Between each of these periods are four to five year transitional periods and in life, as in Brexit, these transitions are often turbulent. They involve coming to terms with what one has – or hasn’t – achieved, making choices about a new life structure to strive for, and then starting to work through the changes that these choices require. Feelings of confusion and paralysis can be experienced in all of life’s transition stages. Indeed, one of them can be so dramatic that it even has its own special name in the English language – the ‘midlife crisis’.
For me, Levinson’s work complements the ‘Horizons of Focus’ model, a GTD® framework for creating a vision of the future and thinking about what one is trying to achieve over timescales of various lengths (i.e. three to five year vision, 12-18 month objectives etc.). Whereas the Horizons of Focus® model helps to clarify where you trying to get to next, Levinson’s model offers a high-level perspective on where you are in life’s journey as a whole. It therefore helps you think about how your personal development needs will inevitably change over time. This can then be factored into those decisions about what to do next as natural, organic life changes start to take place.
I first came across Levinson’s work in a mentoring and coaching context, where there is evidence that role transition in organisations will be quicker when mentoring is used. One of the reasons that mentoring does this is because it provides a space for reflection and focus as you tackle the internal and external challenges that transition presents. GTD helps in a similar way, too, creating the space to think clearly and keeping you focussed through the regular review and reflection practices that are built into the horizons of focus model and the Weekly Review®.
